{"id":3238,"date":"2017-03-23T18:33:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T22:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2017-03-23T18:35:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T22:35:37","slug":"just-a-pod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/just-a-pod\/","title":{"rendered":"Just A Pod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MTP_first_strip.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3239\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/just-a-pod\/mtp_first_strip\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MTP_first_strip.jpg?fit=509%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"509,750\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MTP_first_strip\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MTP_first_strip.jpg?fit=500%2C737&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3239\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MTP_first_strip.jpg?resize=500%2C737\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MTP_first_strip.jpg?w=509&amp;ssl=1 509w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MTP_first_strip.jpg?resize=204%2C300&amp;ssl=1 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is the very first\u00a0<em>Mike The Pod<\/em> comic strip, originally written in late 1987, then published in\u00a0<em>The Glen Echo<\/em>, my high school newspaper, in February of 1988. The strip continued in the\u00a0<em>Echo<\/em> until I graduated in 1990. Mike never actually burned to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,6],"tags":[42,105,187,104,629,38,31,28,25,26,1087,226,362,951,43,32],"class_list":["post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-influences","category-classic-comix","category-faint-signals","tag-tbt","tag-1980s","tag-187","tag-104","tag-629","tag-1990s","tag-comix","tag-despair","tag-laughter","tag-mike-the-pod","tag-mike-the-pod-comix","tag-new-jersey","tag-poddism","tag-poddist-philosophy","tag-throwback-thursday","tag-underground"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53HmY-Qe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":280,"url":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/alask-poor-popeyes\/","url_meta":{"origin":3238,"position":0},"title":"Alask, Poor Popeyes","author":"MattyBoy","date":"12\/04\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure by now a lot of you have seen the trailer for the upcoming CGI Popeye, and unless the sailor is a stranger to you, you noticed a lack of a certain tooty trademark. 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