{"id":363,"date":"2008-04-02T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2008\/04\/02\/flash-brings-magazine-genius-to-web\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:41","slug":"flash-brings-magazine-genius-to-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2008\/04\/02\/flash-brings-magazine-genius-to-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash brings &quot;MAD&quot; magazine&#39;s genius to the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh4.google.com\/dave.traynor\/R_PAAvCycMI\/AAAAAAAAAOw\/E_BRGm2doUA\/250px-Completelymad%20copy.jpg?resize=142%2C165\" alt=\"250px-Completelymad copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"142\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\" \/>If you&#8217;re of a certain age, you&#8217;ll remember the fun you had reading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mad_%28magazine%29\">MAD magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a younger person, I probably missed the point of a lot of the satirical content but I appreciated the cleverness, with features like Spy-vs-Spy and The Lighter Side of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One feature I remember marvelling at was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Jaffee\">Al Jaffee&#8217;s<\/a> fold-in&#8217;s, where the simple act of folding a page into thirds revealed an entirely different answer to the question posed. <\/p>\n<p>If that sentence above doesn&#8217;t make any sense, don&#8217;t worry. Thanks to Flash technology, we are now able to enjoy Al Jaffee&#8217;s genius (and prescience) right online, courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2008\/03\/28\/arts\/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See what I&#8217;m talking about at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2008\/03\/28\/arts\/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re of a certain age, you&#8217;ll remember the fun you had reading MAD magazine. As a younger person, I probably missed the point of a lot of the satirical content but I appreciated the cleverness, with features like Spy-vs-Spy and The Lighter Side of&#8230; One feature I remember marvelling at was Al Jaffee&#8217;s fold-in&#8217;s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-5R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/250px-Completelymad-copy.jpg?fit=284%2C330&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}