{"id":275,"date":"2003-05-11T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2003-05-11T12:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=275"},"modified":"2003-05-11T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2003-05-11T12:34:11","slug":"ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/11\/ride.html","title":{"rendered":"Ride!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Boomerang 1980 cartoon retrospective on Cartoon Network started this morning with the apallingly bad and eminently (Dear God, please) forgettable <i>Heathcliff and Dingbat<\/i>, but then, whoa &#8212; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thundarr.com\/\"><i>Thundarr the Barbarian<\/i><\/a>!  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