{"id":35582,"date":"2021-01-26T01:31:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=35582"},"modified":"2021-01-25T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T17:32:19","slug":"the-devil-smoked-kools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/01\/26\/the-devil-smoked-kools\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil Smoked Kools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Devil Smoked Kools\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/50818555532\/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\/50818555532_cd4aa2e164_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Devil Smoked Kools\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>A drawing I recently found in a crumbling folder filled with old grade school homework. I have no idea what the context was or why I drew it. I was probably 7 or 8 years old at the time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was drawn on that cheap pulp paper that had a scratchy surface that would set my teeth on edge as I drew on it. I remember seeing stacks of this in the supply closets at school. It was probably bought in bulk years prior and was already yellowing at the edges. It was the all-purpose art paper. Pencil, crayon, water color &#8212; it was used for them all and took all of those mediums poorly.<\/p>\n<p>I have no recollection of this drawing. I&#8217;m not sure if I did it in school. If I did, I was lucky I did not attend one of those progressive schools with a psychologist on staff.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10169\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/22\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook-the-little-black-book\/it-came-from-the-sb-banner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?fit=800%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"it-came-from-the-SB-banner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?fit=640%2C96&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10169\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=640%2C96&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=300%2C45&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=250%2C37&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drawing I recently found in a crumbling folder filled with old grade school homework. I have no idea what the context was or why I drew it. I was probably 7 or 8 years old at the time.<\/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":[4953,49,16],"tags":[233,17,5040,3878,310],"class_list":["post-35582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodle-tuesday","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","tag-1970s","tag-cartoon","tag-cigarette","tag-devil","tag-doodle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9fU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44291,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/12\/24\/the-tuesday-doodle\/","url_meta":{"origin":35582,"position":0},"title":"The Tuesday Doodle","author":"Joe","date":"December 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Goo-Goo Muck. 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