{"id":579,"date":"2014-02-03T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T23:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/?p=579"},"modified":"2014-02-03T16:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T23:21:42","slug":"grant-snider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/2014\/02\/03\/grant-snider\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Snider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna Murynka<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;d like to highlight my favourite comic artist, Grant Snider.\u00a0And, because of the nature of his cartoons, I also appreciate Snider as a writer, designer, and teacher. He has a particular ability to take complicated sets of information and reduce them into an amusing visual narrative, which, as a student, is something I aspire to. Here are some examples of what I mean:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-I97nFreGuxo\/TsSVasP8vbI\/AAAAAAAABA8\/1-4EeTGPerk\/s1600\/literarydevices-blog.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/<wbr \/>-I97nFreGuxo\/TsSVasP8vbI\/<wbr \/>AAAAAAAABA8\/1-4EeTGPerk\/s1600\/<wbr \/>literarydevices-blog.jpg<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-E1_ZPmInqDM\/TuU5ZRZopVI\/AAAAAAAABBc\/AqPm29KFMT4\/s1600\/functionworld-blog.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-<wbr \/>E1_ZPmInqDM\/TuU5ZRZopVI\/<wbr \/>AAAAAAAABBc\/AqPm29KFMT4\/s1600\/<wbr \/>functionworld-blog.jpg<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-UtWXvZ_0g1Q\/TzsnEqMbSiI\/AAAAAAAABD0\/6lqybMjjNwA\/s1600\/coffeecycle-blog.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/<wbr \/>-UtWXvZ_0g1Q\/TzsnEqMbSiI\/<wbr \/>AAAAAAAABD0\/6lqybMjjNwA\/s1600\/<wbr \/>coffeecycle-blog.jpg<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>A lot of his work is posted on Google and Tumblr, and is highly worth checking out (if you&#8217;ve got a lot of time to kill; reading his comics is highly addictive).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna Murynka Today I&#8217;d like to highlight my favourite comic artist, Grant Snider.\u00a0And, because of the nature of his cartoons, I also appreciate Snider as a writer, designer, and teacher. He has a particular ability to take complicated sets of information and reduce them into an amusing visual narrative, which, as a student, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21699,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349616,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gage","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}