{"id":472,"date":"2006-08-31T16:49:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T21:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2006-08-31T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T21:49:39","slug":"seths-nostalgia-for-the-20s-and-30s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Seth&#8217;s Nostalgia for the 20s and 30s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.cbc.ca\/IDD-1-68-2352\/arts_entertainment\/canadian_comics\/+\">The Comics in Canada: An Illustrated History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been slowly making my way through this nice archive of audio and video interview and feature clips of Canadian cartoonists.&nbsp; I listened most recently to the one about &#8220;Seth,&#8221; a cartoonist who really wears his obsession with the 1920s and 30s on his sleeve.&nbsp; The voiceover referred to him being &#8220;nostalgic&#8221; for this period, which immediately seemed odd to me.&nbsp; Can one truly be <i>nostalgic<\/i> for a time period (or place) which one has never experienced?&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webster.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&amp;va=nostalgia\">Websters definition<\/a> isn&#8217;t really specific on the subject:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>1<\/b> <b>:<\/b> the state of being homesick  <b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webster.com\/dictionary\/homesickness\"><font size=\"-1\">HOMESICKNESS<\/font><\/a><\/b><br \/><b>2<\/b> <b>:<\/b> a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition; <i>also<\/i> <b>:<\/b> something that evokes nostalgia <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can I, for example, be nostalgic for medieval Scotland?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Comics in Canada: An Illustrated History I&#8217;ve been slowly making my way through this nice archive of audio and video interview and feature clips of Canadian cartoonists.&nbsp; I listened most recently to the one about &#8220;Seth,&#8221; a cartoonist who really wears his obsession with the 1920s and 30s on his sleeve.&nbsp; The voiceover referred &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=472\">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":[],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-7C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}