{"id":12035,"date":"2011-01-04T11:38:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T18:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2011-01-04T11:38:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T18:38:52","slug":"this-week%e2%80%99s-cartoon-%e2%80%9cwinter-hat-semiotics%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12035","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Cartoon: \u201cWinter Hat Semiotics\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/winterhats.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Winter Hat Semiotics\" src=\"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/winterhats.png\" alt=\"cartoon about winter fashion\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Been a while since I rapped at ya, I know. I&#8217;ve been busy vacationing at the Slowpoke Underground Bunker and Research Lab in an undisclosed location in the Rockies, and also working on a cool freelance project I hope to share with you in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been fascinated by the rise of the ironic trapper hat, as shown in the first panel. A couple months ago, I tried on a big one at REI. Then, the other night, I watched a hip young woman dancing in a bar while wearing one of these grandfatherly noggin-warmers. The left girl in the first panel is basically her. I also saw a mohawk-hat kid the other day. For more silly hats and amusing ski vacation anecdotes, I suggest you check out my friend Lloyd Dangle&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.troubletown.com\/2010\/12\/weekly-dose-of-dangle.html\" >blogging and sketching from the Sierras<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a bunch of animal-ear hats when I was at the San Diego Comicon, and also one at that same bar the other night. Please, people! Friends don&#8217;t let their adult friends walk around wearing little knit cat ears! Unless they are filming porn, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since I rapped at ya, I know. I&#8217;ve been busy vacationing at the Slowpoke Underground Bunker and Research Lab in an undisclosed location in the Rockies, and also working on a cool freelance project I hope to share with you in a few weeks.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been fascinated by the rise of the ironic [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12035\">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-12035","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\/12035","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=12035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}