{"id":1962,"date":"2007-01-16T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2007-01-16T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T08:08:00","slug":"no-its-not-a-sketch-of-ethel-merman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=1962","title":{"rendered":"No, it&#8217;s not a sketch of Ethel Merman&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">&#8230; it&#8217;s a sketch of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mer-Man\">Mer-Man<\/a><\/em>&#8211;Ocean Warlord, and minion of Skeletor! As usual, this was posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.he-man.org\/\">He-Man.org<\/a> fan-art <a href=\"http:\/\/www.he-man.org\/forums\/boards\/forumdisplay.php?f=5\">forums<\/a>. My post is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.he-man.org\/forums\/boards\/showpost.php?p=1728643&#038;postcount=10\">here<\/a>, the entire thread (including my Skeletor sketch) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.he-man.org\/forums\/boards\/showthread.php?t=145024\">here<\/a>. <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/mermanweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/mermanweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Of my posts so far, this sketch is probably the&#8230; <em>sketchiest<\/em>. The pose is ten kinds of awkward, and the body is just a shade too squat, even by the uber-buffed standards of He-Man action figures. On the other hand, the face turned out the way I wanted it too, and I&#8217;m pretty satisfied with the colors&#8230; Well, they can&#8217;t all be winners.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about all I have to say about that. So now, to fill space as my system experiences a catastrophic crash from a carb and sugar high brought on by my dark lord, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_in_the_Box\">Jack In The Box<\/a><\/em>, I will list the sinister contents of my disastrous lunch: <\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Steak and Cheddar <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ciabatta\">Ciabatta<\/a> Sandwich (roughly the size of a premature baby) <\/li>\n<li>Miniature trough full of Cheese and Bacon Potato Wedges <\/li>\n<li>Large Order of Curly Fries (I only finished two-thirds of it) <\/li>\n<li>A bucket full of Orange <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fanta\">Fanta<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div align=\"left\">It should go without saying that I skipped dinner.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><b>For more on Ethel Merman:<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethel_Merman\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethel_Merman<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; it&#8217;s a sketch of Mer-Man&#8211;Ocean Warlord, and minion of Skeletor! As usual, this was posted on the He-Man.org fan-art forums. My post is here, the entire thread (including my Skeletor sketch) is here. click above for larger view Of my posts so far, this sketch is probably the&#8230; sketchiest. The pose is ten kinds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-he-manshe-ra","category-he-manshe-ra-villains","category-he-manshe-ra-villains-skeletor-and-minions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}