{"id":35515,"date":"2021-01-10T13:11:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=35515"},"modified":"2021-01-10T13:11:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:11:57","slug":"oh-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/01\/10\/oh-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"OH BOY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"OH BOY!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/50817716913\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50817716913_9c44eb4196_c.jpg?resize=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"OH BOY!\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>A cartoon I did back when I was around 7 or 8 years old. It was probably drawn while I was splayed out on the floor in front of the television watching <em><a href=\"https:\/\/phl17.com\/web-exclusives\/wee-willie-webber-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wee Willie Webber.<\/a> <\/em>I found it in a crumbling folder along with some dated school work so I&#8217;m guessing this cartoon dates from the very early 1970s.<\/p>\n<p><em>Crude, but it showed talent. <\/em>Maybe not so much, but I did get a chuckle at the lunatic expression on the character&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cartoon I did back when I was around 7 or 8 years old. It was probably drawn while I was splayed out on the floor in front of the television watching Wee Willie Webber. I found it in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/01\/10\/oh-boy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,49,16],"tags":[233,17,310,4971],"class_list":["post-35515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","tag-1970s","tag-cartoon","tag-doodle","tag-scribble"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9eP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35673,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/02\/23\/doodle-tuesday-the-dork-knight\/","url_meta":{"origin":35515,"position":0},"title":"Doodle Tuesday &#8211; The Dork Knight","author":"Joe","date":"February 23, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"A doodle I recently uncovered which I probably did back when I was in grade school in the early 1970s. 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