{"id":312,"date":"2007-06-19T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=312"},"modified":"2007-06-19T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T03:00:00","slug":"the-patrick-mcdonnell-center-for-cartoon-studies-commencement-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"The Patrick McDonnell Center for Cartoon Studies Commencement Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muttscomics.com\/art\/dailyarchive.asp?month=5&#038;date=19&#038;year=2007\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/mcdonnell_speech.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/patrick_mcdonnells_speech_to_the_2007_graduating_class_at_center_for_cartoo\/\">Check out this inspiring commencement speech<\/a> to the first graduating class of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonstudies.org\/\">The Center for Cartoon Studies<\/a> by the great Patrick McDonnell at Tom Spurgeon&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/comicsreporter.com\">Comics Reporter<\/a> Blog.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Spurgeon has also reviewed a recent run (May 13-19) of McDonnell&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/muttscomics.com\">Mutts<\/a><\/span> strips having to do with writing a commencement speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/cr_review_mutts_may_13_19_2007\/\">here<\/a>, one of which can be seen above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this inspiring commencement speech to the first graduating class of The Center for Cartoon Studies by the great Patrick McDonnell at Tom Spurgeon&#8217;s excellent Comics Reporter Blog. Mr. Spurgeon has also reviewed a recent run (May 13-19) of McDonnell&#8217;s Mutts strips having to do with writing a commencement speech here, one of which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Patrick McDonnell Center for Cartoon Studies Commencement Speech<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-lessons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-52","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}