{"id":1664,"date":"2015-03-21T20:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T20:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2025-11-04T03:56:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T03:56:44","slug":"the-complete-calvin-and-hobbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"The Complete Calvin and Hobbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4014-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4014\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4014-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4014-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, <em>Calvin and Hobbes<\/em> was the highlight of the comics page.  When this big box set came out in paperback a bit over two years ago, I pounced.  Last year, I started reading it to my oldest before bed.  Now he is devouring it without me (but he loves to show me the strips he thinks are the funniest, like the one above).  <\/p>\n<p>Author:  Bill Watterson<br \/>\nIllustrator:  Bill Watterson<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=insofadog-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1449433251&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=FFFFFF&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;npa=1&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, Calvin and Hobbes was the highlight of the comics page. When this big box set came out in paperback a bit over two years ago, I pounced. Last year, I started reading it to my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1664\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119,82,593,155,342,566,578,592,134],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","tag-animals","tag-bedtime","tag-bill-watterson","tag-i-read-this-as-a-kid","tag-school","tag-science-fiction","tag-series","tag-the-complete-calvin-and-hobbes","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}