{"id":135848,"date":"2018-01-13T21:31:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T04:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135848"},"modified":"2018-02-12T07:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:24:27","slug":"a-family-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/a-family-guy.html","title":{"rendered":"A Family Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since I did a &#8220;This Is Your Avatar&#8221; exercise, but the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyguyyourself.com\/\">Family Guy Yourself<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0thing was too much fun to resist.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many of these, it&#8217;s all a series of compromises, further complicated by one&#8217;s own idealized self-image. But, aside from the lack of Hawaiian shirt to go by, and the sense that the beard is a bit too heavy, I&#8217;m fairly happy with the result.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6510759379303863809\/6510759378334965074\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-j0OQAE3BFYo\/WlrdKLuy3VI\/AAAAAAAEpd4\/B8hYKax1WmUgD69ZH-gt-eBa9W7oTpJcQCJoC\/familyguy%2BDave.png?imgmax=660\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/CTaV6nHKkQ8\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since I did a &#8220;This Is Your Avatar&#8221; exercise, but the &#8220;Family Guy Yourself&#8221;\u00a0thing was too much fun to resist. Like so many of these, it&#8217;s all a series of compromises, further complicated by one&#8217;s own idealized self-image. But, aside from the lack of Hawaiian shirt to go by, and the sense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/a-family-guy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Family Guy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135849,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,4],"tags":[1423],"class_list":["post-135848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-personal","tag-avatar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/familyguy+Dave.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132085,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/yeah-avatar-worlds-most-well-known-movie-amirite.html","url_meta":{"origin":135848,"position":0},"title":"Yeah, Avatar, world&#039;s most well-known movie, amirite?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Nov-16 8:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Thank you. 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