{"id":42270,"date":"2024-01-09T07:36:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=42270"},"modified":"2024-01-09T07:36:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T12:36:09","slug":"fuxi-sketchbook-09-01-2023-to-01-02-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/01\/09\/fuxi-sketchbook-09-01-2023-to-01-02-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuxi Sketchbook \u2022 09-01-2023 to 01-02-2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I thought this cheap, Chinese-made sketchbook could possibly be the next Sketchbook from Heaven<\/em>, but not quite. The size, shape and country of manufacture were the same as my favorite sketchbooks, but it wasn’t quite as magical as those earlier doodle pads.<\/p>\n

See some of the scribbles within HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought this cheap, Chinese-made sketchbook could possibly be the next Sketchbook from Heaven, but not quite. The size, shape and country of manufacture were the same as my favorite sketchbooks, but it wasn’t quite as magical as those earlier … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[49],"tags":[17,8,5754,3661,5,3663,25,480],"class_list":["post-42270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-fuxi","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-aZM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41914,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/11\/08\/what-the-fuxi\/","url_meta":{"origin":42270,"position":0},"title":"What the Fuxi?","author":"Joe","date":"November 8, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"After killing off my last cheap sketchbook which was from Ticonderoga and is readily available as of this writing, I shopped around for a replacement. 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