{"id":210,"date":"2005-09-16T10:43:37","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2005-09-16T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T15:45:02","slug":"center-for-cartoon-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Center for Cartoon Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently in White River Junction, Vermont visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonstudies.org\">Center for Cartoon Studies<\/a>.  I arrived yesterday and delivered a short talk to the 21 students who make up the inagural incoming class, then have been kicking around the town since then.  Below are a few pictures:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the main drag of downtown White River Junction:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/main.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_main.jpg\" title=\"WRJ main street\" alt=\"WRJ main street\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and the Hotel Coolidge where I&#8217;m currently staying.  It&#8217;s seems to be riding the fine line between &#8220;rustic&#8221; and &#8220;delapitated&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/coolidge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_coolidge.jpg\" title=\"Coolidge\" alt=\"Coolidge\" width=\"187\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Polka Dot Diner:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/polka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_polka.jpg\" title=\"Polka Dot\" alt=\"Polka Dot\" width=\"250\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Center for Cartoon Studies:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/ccs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_ccs.jpg\" title=\"CCS\" alt=\"CCS\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The White River:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/river.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_river.jpg\" title=\"The White River\" alt=\"The White River\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Apparently <strong>everyone<\/strong> in New England drives a Subaru wagon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/subaru.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_subaru.jpg\" title=\"Subarus\" alt=\"Subarus\" width=\"250\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>A stuffed alpaca in the town museum&#8217;s front window<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/alpaca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_alpaca.jpg\" title=\"alpaca\" alt=\"alpaca\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Cartoonist Robyn Chapman organizing CCS&#8217;s new Charles Schulz library:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/library.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_library.jpg\" title=\"library\" alt=\"library\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently in White River Junction, Vermont visiting the Center for Cartoon Studies. I arrived yesterday and delivered a short talk to the 21 students who make up the inagural incoming class, then have been kicking around the town since then. Below are a few pictures: Here&#8217;s the main drag of downtown White River Junction: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=210\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-3o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}