{"id":35173,"date":"2005-06-28T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/06\/28\/drink-at-work-the-blog-of-a-cartoonist\/"},"modified":"2005-06-28T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T10:00:08","slug":"drink-at-work-the-blog-of-a-cartoonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050628-08\/?p=35173","title":{"rendered":"Drink at work: The blog of a cartoonist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Francesco (&#8220;Ces&#8221;) Marciuliano is the author of the comic strip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingfeatures.com\/features\/comics\/sforth\/about.htm\"> Sally Forth<\/a>. In his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinkatwork.com\/blog.html\"> Drink at Work<\/a> he expounds on whatever tickles his fancy. (Warning: Includes strong language, adult situations, and political views.) Sure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinkatwork.com\/2005_04_01_archive.html#111358765927960249\"> the stories on writing a cartoon are fun<\/a>, especially when he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinkatwork.com\/2005\/05\/concerns-for-kitty-questions-for-me.html\"> responds to feedback from readers<\/a>, and he also has a long series of articles titled Comic Strip Writing 101 (example: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinkatwork.com\/2005\/04\/comic-strip-writing-101-its-not-all.html\"> Comic Strip Writing 101: It&#8217;s Not All Pabst and Vicodin<\/a>), but that&#8217;s not the best part. No, the best part is the conversations with his father. Here&#8217;s an except from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinkatwork.com\/2005\/04\/conversations-with-dad-2.html\"> Conversation number two<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p> <strong>Dad:<\/strong> Marciulianos live much longer than average folks! Look at your Grandpa! He would still be alive today if he hadn&#8217;t died in that hospital. <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Ces:<\/strong> What? <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Dad:<\/strong> Y&#8217;know, from that spill he took&#8230;when he had to go to the hospital. I bet if he didn&#8217;t fall he would still be around today. <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Ces:<\/strong> At age 102? <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Dad:<\/strong> See? That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about. Marciulianos live a long time. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesco (&#8220;Ces&#8221;) Marciuliano is the author of the comic strip Sally Forth. In his blog, Drink at Work he expounds on whatever tickles his fancy. (Warning: Includes strong language, adult situations, and political views.) Sure, the stories on writing a cartoon are fun, especially when he responds to feedback from readers, and he also has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-35173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Francesco (&#8220;Ces&#8221;) Marciuliano is the author of the comic strip Sally Forth. In his blog, Drink at Work he expounds on whatever tickles his fancy. (Warning: Includes strong language, adult situations, and political views.) Sure, the stories on writing a cartoon are fun, especially when he responds to feedback from readers, and he also has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}