{"id":433,"date":"2009-07-19T23:38:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T04:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=433"},"modified":"2010-06-02T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T16:47:05","slug":"balloon-buddies-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Buddies Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Balloon Buddies are two unnamed balloon roommates who basically do lots of drugs, argue, celebrate weird holidays, and get into all kinds of hijinks.\u00a0 They are based, loosely, on myself and my old college roommate, even though we never did drugs&#8230;we only acted like we did.<\/p>\n<p>Balloon Buddies, for those of you not in the know, is a comic strip I have worked on and off again for almost six years.\u00a0 Actually, that&#8217;s a lie.\u00a0 I created the first twenty or so strips one night back in college, and since then have created a handful at a time separated by months or even years of nothing.\u00a0 But no more!\u00a0 Due to popular demand, Balloon Buddies is back and in a new, enlarged &#8220;Sunday Funnies&#8221; format!\u00a0 Look for them here on GS on Sunday mornings!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/steve1.gif\" title=\"steve1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/steve1.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"steve1.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Balloon Buddies are two unnamed balloon roommates who basically do lots of drugs, argue, celebrate weird holidays, and get into all kinds of hijinks.\u00a0 They are based, loosely, on myself and my old college roommate, even though we never &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=433\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Balloon Buddies Returns<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[103,68],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balloonbuddies","tag-balloon-buddies","tag-cassander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}