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It, in turn, references the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garfield\" target=\"_blank\">Garfield<\/a> Wikipedia page, which has been slightly modified since then, but which now points to a separate entry on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garfield_Halloween_Strips\" target=\"_blank\">Garfield Halloween Strips<\/a> &#8212; though, oddly enough, that entry is marked for possible deletion &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/tableofmalcontents\/index.blog?entry_id=1534893\" target=\"_blank\">Table of Malcontents<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the immediate response of, &#8220;If only it were so,&#8221; there&#8217;s some evidence that the big, lasagna-eating comic strip feline is actually starving to death in an abandoned house,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9128,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/how_to_make_gar.html","url_meta":{"origin":10219,"position":0},"title":"How to make Garfield funny","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Feb-06 2:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Remove his thought balloons. 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