{"id":71,"date":"2009-10-06T10:59:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T10:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp\/?p=71"},"modified":"2009-10-06T10:59:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T10:59:29","slug":"archie_date_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/2009\/10\/archie_date_update.html","title":{"rendered":"Archie Date Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/Archie%20pops%20question.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Archie pops question.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/Archie%20pops%20question-thumb-325x500-10507.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><strong>A while back<\/strong>, when it was &#8220;leaked&#8221; that the 600th issue of <i>Archie<\/i> comics would be a wedding announcement, I myself made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/2009\/05\/archie_pops_the_question_to.html\">a modest proposal<\/a>. Today, the New York Times published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/06\/books\/06archie.html?_r=2&amp;hp\"><i>Archie<\/i> follow<\/a> that pulls my facetious wishful thinking into the real &#8212; albeit comic &#8212; world. Sometimes, buried sentences such as these just cry out for attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The polls that I&#8217;ve seen ran about 80\/20, Betty over Veronica, with Jughead continually coming in a strong third,&#8221; said Mr. [Michael E.] Uslan, a comic-book historian, a longtime &#8220;Archie&#8221; fan and a producer of the big-screen &#8220;Batman&#8221; films.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A strong third! Right after Veronica! My felt-capped head is reeling. Did other poll choices include Veronica&#8217;s tycoon father, Mr. Lodge? (I always thought he was really Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.) Mr. Lodge seems quite svelte, and rich: a catch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is now proved was once only imagined.&#8221; Yes, William Blake is almost always right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For an automatic alert when there is a new Out There post, email <st1:personname w:st=\"on\"><a href=\"mailto:jiweinste@aol.com\"><font color=\"#ab0404\">jiweinste@aol.com<\/font><\/a><\/st1:personname>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, when it was &#8220;leaked&#8221; that the 600th issue of Archie comics would be a wedding announcement, I myself made a modest proposal. Today, the New York Times published an Archie follow that pulls my facetious wishful thinking into the real &#8212; albeit comic &#8212; world. Sometimes, buried sentences such as these just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4],"tags":[136,89,13,137,90],"class_list":{"0":"post-71","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-archie","8":"tag-betty","9":"tag-gay-marriage","10":"tag-jughead","11":"tag-veronica","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}