{"id":1418,"date":"2009-03-12T08:51:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T12:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2009-03-12T08:52:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T12:52:51","slug":"interesting-word-balloon-use-in-todays-cul-de-sac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Word Balloon Use in Today&#8217;s &#8216;Cul de Sac&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <em>Cul de Sac<\/em> features an interesting formal use of word balloons that I&#8217;ve not seen before.\u00a0 The basic setup here is that Alice has a new pair of shoes that she&#8217;s been enjoying mainly for their incessant squeaking, which has now ceased.\u00a0 In the strip, she&#8217;s imitating the squeaking and the placement of the balloons gets ever higher within the panel to indicate the increasing pitch of her squeaking.\u00a0 Finally, the &#8220;squeak&#8221;&#8216;s being all the way out of the panel is used to indicate that Alice&#8217;s squeaking is now so high-pitched that it&#8217;s out of human hearing range.\u00a0 Not seeing = not hearing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"cul\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cul.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1420 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cul.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"cul\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Cul de Sac features an interesting formal use of word balloons that I&#8217;ve not seen before.\u00a0 The basic setup here is that Alice has a new pair of shoes that she&#8217;s been enjoying mainly for their incessant squeaking, which has now ceased.\u00a0 In the strip, she&#8217;s imitating the squeaking and the placement of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1418\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-mS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}