{"id":358,"date":"2009-03-20T14:39:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T19:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=358"},"modified":"2009-03-20T14:39:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T19:39:49","slug":"robert-ariail-20-march-2009-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Robert Ariail, 20 March 2009 (moved)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I first became aware of Robert Ariail when I was at USC, and he was a student cartoonist on the Gamecock<\/i> student newspaper. He did a riff on the old National Enquirer<\/i> cover \"Buy this magazine or we'll shoot this dog\". I think his was something like \"Read the Gamecock or we'll pluck this chicken\".<\/p>\n

As far as I know, I never met him, but when he was hired by The State<\/i>, it was a nice \"fellow student makes good\" moment. I confess that I saw his work only sporadically after I left town for Fayetteville in 1985 -- I'd read the paper on weekends when I was visiting home, but I never subscribed on my own when I came back.<\/p>\n

It appears he was caught in the latest round of RIFs at The State<\/i> and moved on when they made him what seems to me a rather insulting (given his national stature) offer of part-time work. It all seems penny-wise and pound-foolish, but that's the newspaper biz today.<\/p>\n

It appears that he has set up shop online<\/a>, and I'm sure he'll continue to find work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first became aware of Robert Ariail when I was at USC, and he was a student cartoonist on the Gamecock student newspaper. He did a riff on the old National Enquirer cover \"Buy this magazine or we'll shoot this dog\". I think his was something like \"Read the Gamecock or we'll pluck this chicken\". […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,10],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-entertainment","tag-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}