{"id":19,"date":"2008-10-09T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-02-17T04:18:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T04:18:28","slug":"opus-is-leaving-the-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planinatrix.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Opus is leaving the building&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Berkeley Breathed is retiring Opus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=95441421&amp;ps=bb3\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=95441421&amp;ps=bb3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I grew up with Bloom County and Opus. As a kid, I didn&#8217;t always understand some of the more subtle aspects, but I liked Opus. His anxiety closet has always been an amusing visualization of our own inner fears.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favority cartoons is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=95441421&amp;ps=bb3\">A Wish for Wings that Work<\/a>. I have an ancient VCR tape from an occasion when it aired on TV. A quick Amazon search shows me that it is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Opus-Bill-Wish-Wings-That\/dp\/B000UZDO6M\/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_2_txt?pf_rd_p=304485601&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-2&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=6302884764&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=1WESZA4RHZCSJBSW0ZN2\">DVD<\/a>, so I will need to add that to my wish list. I am still amused thinking about the meeting of the &#8220;cross-dressing cockroaches in crisis&#8221;. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Farewell old friend. May you find lots of herrings and buxom women waiting for you. <span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Berkeley Breathed is retiring Opus. http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=95441421&amp;ps=bb3 I grew up with Bloom County and Opus. As a kid, I didn&#8217;t always understand some of the more subtle aspects, but I liked Opus. His anxiety closet has always been an amusing visualization of our own inner fears. One of my favority cartoons is A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planinatrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planinatrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planinatrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planinatrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planinatrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planinatrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.planinatrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planinatrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planinatrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planinatrix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}