{"id":4917,"date":"2013-04-16T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2013-04-16T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:23:41","slug":"eat-mousies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4917","title":{"rendered":"Eat mousies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite cartoonists is the unforgettable Bernard Kliban (B. Kliban, as per his signature) whose <a href=\"http:\/\/eatmousies.com\/\">unique cats<\/a> always make me laugh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eatmousies.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4918\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/eatmousies.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoongallery.eu\/englishversion\/gallery\/czech-republic\/miroslav-bartak\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4919\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/miroslav-bartak-34452.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/miroslav-bartak-34452.jpg 210w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/miroslav-bartak-34452-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>The other day, my wife wondered: Could it be that Kliban is of Czech descent? She was asking because there is another amazing cartoonist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoongallery.eu\/englishversion\/gallery\/czech-republic\/miroslav-bartak\/\">Miroslav Bartak<\/a>, whose irreverent humor is not altogether unlike Kliban&#8217;s. Indeed, as anyone who read the story of The Good Soldier \u0160vejk by Jaroslav Ha\u0161ek can testify, there is something uniquely funny about Czech humor&#8230; and at least some of Kliban&#8217;s cats do remind us of that humor.<\/p>\n<p>So I checked, and&#8230; close. Kliban was born in the US, of course, but the family name apparently is <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_dQP4nHgyVUC&amp;pg=PA410&amp;q=jewish%20family%20names%20kliban\">a Jewish name of Western Ukrainian origin<\/a>. So perhaps the cultural roots of Messrs. Bartak and Kliban are not that far apart after all.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4917' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite cartoonists is the unforgettable Bernard Kliban (B. Kliban, as per his signature) whose unique cats always make me laugh. The other day, my wife wondered: Could it be that Kliban is of Czech descent? She was asking because there is another amazing cartoonist, Miroslav Bartak, whose irreverent humor is not altogether <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4917' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-humor","category-40-id","category-59-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4923,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/4923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}