{"id":806,"date":"2007-09-08T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T18:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2007-09-08T15:08:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T19:08:16","slug":"score-original-andy-capp-for-4500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Score!  Original &#8220;Andy Capp&#8221; for $45.00"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, today I was looking for baby furniture (I&#8217;ve heard they can just sleep in a dresser drawer, but my wife isn&#8217;t hip to this idea for whatever reason) at a consignment store around the corner from my house and, as I walked by a display case full of gewgaws I did a classic double take and had to bite my tongue lest I have shouted out, &#8220;Holy $#@*!  Is that an original Reg Smythe <em>Andy Capp<\/em> strip there?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was indeed&#8211;and a really early one no less: December 16th, 1962.   Asking price: $45.00.  Needless to say, I now own this item. Why do we need a bassinet anyway?\u00a0 I have no intention of letting my child even own a <em>rifle<\/em> until she&#8217;s at least 12, at which point she can buy her own night vision scope or bassinet or whatever else she wants to hook onto it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/09\/andy_capp.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"andy_capp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/09\/andy_capp.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"andy_capp.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" height=\"245\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, today I was looking for baby furniture (I&#8217;ve heard they can just sleep in a dresser drawer, but my wife isn&#8217;t hip to this idea for whatever reason) at a consignment store around the corner from my house and, as I walked by a display case full of gewgaws I did a classic double &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=806\">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-d0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}