{"id":824,"date":"2007-10-11T09:43:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T13:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2007-10-11T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T13:43:40","slug":"funkywinkerbeanization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Funkywinkerbeanization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortpacked.com\/d\/20070416.html\" target=\"_blank\">great parody strips<\/a>, the best thing to come out of the recent &#8220;cancer&#8221; storyline in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funkywinkerbean.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Funky Winkerbean<\/a> is a term recently coined by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativekungfu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">friend of mine<\/a>: <strong>funkywinkerbeanization<\/strong>.\u00a0 Employed as a noun, the term refers to a situation in which something that was originally lighthearted, fun and\/or enjoyable later becomes  laborious and bogged down in self-importance.\u00a0 Here are a few examples of the word used in sentences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many Dan Clowes fans are divided over the direction of his more recent work, but I&#8217;ve enjoyed his comics both before and after the funkywinkerbeanization of <em>Eightball<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>I heard a couple of early Beatles songs on the oldies channel the other day and it reminded me of how regrettable the funkywinkerbeanization of that band was.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You get the idea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from some great parody strips, the best thing to come out of the recent &#8220;cancer&#8221; storyline in Funky Winkerbean is a term recently coined by a friend of mine: funkywinkerbeanization.\u00a0 Employed as a noun, the term refers to a situation in which something that was originally lighthearted, fun and\/or enjoyable later becomes laborious and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=824\">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-di","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}