{"id":3474,"date":"2011-08-08T04:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T09:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2019-11-25T20:10:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T01:10:51","slug":"increasing-your-stature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/08\/08\/increasing-your-stature\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Miss About Comics…Increasing Your Stature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I have a couple of questions:<\/p>\n

1. Was the HEIGHT INCREASE BUREAU<\/strong> an official governmental organization up in the Great White North?<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

2. What was the Canadian equivalent<\/em> to 25\u00a2 back in 1971?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a couple of questions: 1. Was the HEIGHT INCREASE BUREAU an official governmental organization up in the Great White North? and 2. What was the Canadian equivalent to 25\u00a2 back in 1971?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[335],"tags":[204,359,552,312,9,553,551,336],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-204","tag-ad","tag-canada","tag-comic","tag-comics","tag-ontario","tag-taller","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-U2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3108,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/06\/27\/what-i-miss-about-comics-long-distance-calls-from-castle-grayskull\/","url_meta":{"origin":3474,"position":0},"title":"What I Miss About Comics – Long Distance Calls from Castle Grayskull","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"June 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I know that this was well before Masters of the Universe, but it was too good of a joke to pass up.","rel":"","context":"In "Curious Clutter"","block_context":{"text":"Curious Clutter","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/curious-clutter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/he-man.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/he-man.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/he-man.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9703,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/09\/10\/analog-computer\/","url_meta":{"origin":3474,"position":1},"title":"Analog Computer?","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Isn't that a contradiction in terms? 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