{"id":924,"date":"2009-08-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/clouds_indoors_the_joe_btfspik\/"},"modified":"2009-08-17T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T12:00:00","slug":"clouds_indoors_the_joe_btfspik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/clouds_indoors_the_joe_btfspik.html","title":{"rendered":"Clouds indoors: the Joe Btfspik effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lil-abner.com\/familyalbum.html\"><i>Li&#8217;l Abner Family Album<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Joe Btfspik:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"joebtfspik.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/joebtfspik.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"140\" height=\"263\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff8040\" face=\"Comic Sans MS\">Q. Why is he shunned and<br \/>\nfeared? <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#660066\" face=\"Comic Sans MS\">A. He&#8217;s the world&#8217;s worst<br \/>\njinx.<\/font><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div>He<br \/>\ncarried his bad luck with him wherever he went, with an inescapable<br \/>\ngray cloud over his head. Indoors and out, his personal weather was<br \/>\nalways raining. <\/p>\n<p>The idea of indoor clouds is rarely credited to America&#8217;s best Calvinist comic strip. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidsongalleries.com\/artists\/grade\/grade.php\">John Grade<\/a>, <i>Seep of Winter<\/i>, 2008<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"johngradeseepwinter.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/johngradeseepwinter.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"341\" \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acegallery.net\/artwork.php?pageNum_ACE=10&amp;Artist=8\">Tara Donovan<\/a>, <i>Untitled<\/i>, 2003<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"taradonovenceil.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/taradonovenceil.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"380\" \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simparch.org\/freebasin.html\">SIMPARCH<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"simparchceiling.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/simparchceiling.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"401\" height=\"274\" \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kunsthallezurich.ch\/_site_eng\/_parreno\/0_kh_index_bilder.htm\">Philippe Parreno<\/a>, 2009<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"philippeparrinosky.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/philippeparrinosky.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Li&#8217;l Abner Family Album: Joe Btfspik: Q. Why is he shunned and feared? A. He&#8217;s the world&#8217;s worst jinx. He carried his bad luck with him wherever he went, with an inescapable gray cloud over his head. Indoors and out, his personal weather was always raining. The idea of indoor clouds is rarely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}