{"id":607,"date":"2008-03-03T23:35:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T07:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2008-03-03T23:36:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T07:36:33","slug":"crumbling-paper-the-bad-dream-that-made-bill-a-better-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/crumbling-paper-the-bad-dream-that-made-bill-a-better-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Crumbling Paper: The Bad Dream that Made Bill a Better Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?page_id=630\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumblingpaperlogo.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great turn of the last century obscurity called The Bad Dream that Made Bill a Better Boy by William Steinigans&#8230; the format would appear to be a blatant rip off of Little Nemo. There are some other examples of this strip I noticed in an amazing book I need to get a copy of one of these days, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/World-Sunday-Graphic-Pulitzers-Newspaper\/dp\/B000WZPM3S\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1199996615&#038;sr=1-1\"><em>The World on Sunday : Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer&#8217;s Newspaper (1898 &#8211; 1911)<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/crumblingpaper_baddream.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/crumbling_paper\/thumb_crumblingpaper_baddream.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the image to view the full strip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/s\/steinigans_william.htm\">Read about William Steinigans on Lambiek.net here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great turn of the last century obscurity called The Bad Dream that Made Bill a Better Boy by William Steinigans&#8230; the format would appear to be a blatant rip off of Little Nemo. There are some other examples &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/crumbling-paper-the-bad-dream-that-made-bill-a-better-boy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,28,114,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-crumbling-paper","category-william-steinigans","category-ye-olde-comics-and-stuffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-9N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}