{"id":420,"date":"2011-07-15T01:27:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2011-07-15T01:27:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:27:23","slug":"kafir-tahrir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Kafir Tahrir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I posted the last page of the comic! This page is respectfully dedicated to the Uni-Ball<strong>\u2122 <\/strong>&#8220;Vision&#8221; Fine-Width Pen which died heroically in its creation.<\/p>\n<p>When I wrote the first draft of SNitLoE in the spring of 2009, the enormous march on Washington described in the final scene was just wishful thinking on my part. I was irritated that all of my generation&#8217;s righteous outrage during the Bush years had ultimately proven so impotent, and that when we finally <em>did<\/em> mobilize for a cause, the cause was getting a Democrat elected president instead. The DC protest I marched in during the Troop Surge of &#8217;07 was well attended, but shamed by the epic crowds at the Obama inauguration. A nasty spiritual concoction, equal parts naive triumphalism and cynical despondence, utopian escapism and hoarse-voiced fury, seemed to soak us children of the 80s, and I feared we would soon sell out just like the Boomers. So I made a comic about it. (Sorry, Boomers &#8211; you know I love you!)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/EgyptWaveFlag.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How could I have guessed that two springs later young people all around the world would rise up and fulfill my leftist fantasy? The crowds I&#8217;ve drawn on the Washington Mall don&#8217;t seem so unbelievable after Syntagma, Madison, and Puerta del Sol. Maybe I should have named Kafir &#8220;Tahrir&#8221; instead!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Signature.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I posted the last page of the comic! This page is respectfully dedicated to the Uni-Ball\u2122 &#8220;Vision&#8221; Fine-Width Pen which died heroically in its creation. When I wrote the first draft of SNitLoE in the spring of 2009, the enormous march on Washington described in the final scene was just wishful thinking on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}