{"id":11783,"date":"2010-11-30T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2010-11-30T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T20:26:03","slug":"this-week%e2%80%99s-cartoon-%e2%80%9csnack-gentrification%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11783","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Cartoon: \u201cSnack Gentrification\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/snackgentrification.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Snack Gentrification\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/snackgentrification.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>In Seattle there&#8217;s a bakery called Cupcake Royale, which I suppose planted the seed for this cartoon. It seems the Pacific Northwest is positively exploding with artisinal doughnuts, hamburgers, etc. Not that I&#8217;m complaining, really. The trend of gourmet &#8220;lowbrow&#8221; food just strikes me as an interesting cultural phenomenon. It&#8217;s similar to the hipster embrace of Pabst Blue Ribbon, except that unlike PBR, gourmet cupcakes don&#8217;t taste like skunk butt. At least, I assume they don&#8217;t; I&#8217;ve never actually tried a gourmet cupcake <em>or<\/em> a skunk butt.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how this happened, but the peepmaster in the fourth panel came out looking eerily like Trey Anastasio. Am I right or am I right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Seattle there&#8217;s a bakery called Cupcake Royale, which I suppose planted the seed for this cartoon. It seems the Pacific Northwest is positively exploding with artisinal doughnuts, hamburgers, etc. Not that I&#8217;m complaining, really. The trend of gourmet &#8220;lowbrow&#8221; food just strikes me as an interesting cultural phenomenon. It&#8217;s similar to the hipster embrace [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11783\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}