{"id":971,"date":"2008-03-28T06:08:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T10:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2008-03-28T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T15:31:07","slug":"polar-bear-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Polar Bear Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks over at the <a title=\"Midnight Sun Review - Blog@Newsarama\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsarama.com\/2008\/03\/10\/fringe-benefits-midnight-sun\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blog@Newsarama Fringe Benefits column<\/a>, did a nice review of <em>Midnight Sun<\/em>, and gave special mention to the encounter one of the characters has with a polar bear in the book.&nbsp; Since drawing the page they sample there, I&mdash;like a lot of folks&mdash;have been following the &ldquo;career&rdquo; of <a title=\"Flock the baby Polar bear\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hemmy.net\/2008\/03\/13\/flocke-the-polar-bear\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flock the baby Polar bear<\/a>&hellip; you know, &lsquo;cause he&rsquo;s so darned cute.&nbsp; Unfortunately, though, the time I&rsquo;ve wasted looking at the adorable beast has made me realize that in my drawing I&rsquo;ve shorted the bear a couple of digits.&nbsp; Who knew polar bears had such strange feet, with no real thumb equivalent like a dog&rsquo;s dew-claw?&nbsp; This should distract you from any further contemplation of my anatomical cartooning gaffs:<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hemmy.net\/images\/animals\/flocke17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks over at the Blog@Newsarama Fringe Benefits column, did a nice review of Midnight Sun, and gave special mention to the encounter one of the characters has with a polar bear in the book.&nbsp; Since drawing the page they sample there, I&mdash;like a lot of folks&mdash;have been following the &ldquo;career&rdquo; of Flock the baby Polar &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=971\">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":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-fF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}