{"id":1320,"date":"2007-04-09T10:23:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T10:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/09\/rip-johnny-hart\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T10:23:54","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T10:23:54","slug":"rip-johnny-hart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/09\/rip-johnny-hart\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Johnny Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/joshreads.com\/?p=1023\">Comics Curmudgeon<\/a> and others note the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070409\/NEWS01\/704090324\">death of Johnny Hart<\/a>, arguably the best known religious wing nut from Broome County, New York, where I grew up. (Sadly, this is not a set of one, as the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue also traces its origins to the Binghamton area.) Hart was the creator of the comic strip <cite>B.C.<\/cite>, in which wisecracking cavemen occasionall veered off into discussions of or lengthy quotes from Scripture.<\/p>\n<p>The strip hasn&#8217;t been consistently funny for at least fifteen years, and I found his personal views kind of obnoxious, but the man was a Broome County icon, and it&#8217;s sad to see him go. Let me also join Josh in fervently hoping that they don&#8217;t continue the strip past whatever he finished before he died. These zombie comics are almost always a disaster, and it would be much better for <cite>B.C.<\/cite> to fade away, and free up funny-pages space for some new cartoonist to do something interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Comics Curmudgeon and others note the death of Johnny Hart, arguably the best known religious wing nut from Broome County, New York, where I grew up. (Sadly, this is not a set of one, as the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue also traces its origins to the Binghamton area.) Hart was the creator of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/09\/rip-johnny-hart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Johnny Hart<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}