{"id":702,"date":"2007-05-20T23:28:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T06:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/05\/20\/happy-origins-and-beyond-to-the-simpsons\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T05:40:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:40:34","slug":"happy-origins-and-beyond-to-the-simpsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/happy-origins-and-beyond-to-the-simpsons\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy origins and beyond to The Simpsons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not I&#8217;m not the biggest <em>The Simpsons<\/em> fan. I mean of course I can watch a Simpsons episode anyday, and have partaken in a marathon here and there even, but I&#8217;m not a &#8216;fan&#8217; in the sense that I can name over 100 characters, weave quotes from the show into my daily life, or even remotely describe features of the town of Springfield. But I can recognize a milestone when it&#8217;s hit over my head.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image703\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/simpsons_on_tracey_ullman.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Simpsons way back\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So happy 400th episode and 20th anniversary to the Simpsons and everyone involved with the series, especially the fine folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughdraftstudios.com\/\">rough draft studios<\/a> (whom <em>are<\/em> responsible for my &#8216;that reminds me, of this one scene, in Futurama&#8217; fandom &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/02\/14\/happy-v-day\/\">here<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/01\/15\/bender-casemod\/\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/12\/26\/these-weeks-in-art-delayed-life\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;the lobby of James L. Brooks&#8217;s office&#8217; eat your heart out!<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not I&#8217;m not the biggest The Simpsons fan. I mean of course I can watch a Simpsons episode anyday, and have partaken in a marathon here and there even, but I&#8217;m not a &#8216;fan&#8217; in the sense that I can name over 100 characters, weave quotes from the show into my daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[69],"series":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-the-simpsons"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/simpsons_on_tracey_ullman.png?fit=500%2C327&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-bk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}