{"id":2151,"date":"2008-08-25T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2008-08-25T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T06:01:00","slug":"tmnt-tuesdays-part-2-of-4-sensei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"TMNT Tuesdays (Part 2 of 4): Sensei"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">Following from <a href=\"http:\/\/bootlegsketch.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/tmnt-tuesdays-part-1-of-4-ol-shredd.html\">last Tuesday&#8217;s post<\/a>, here&#8217;s Shredder&#8217;s long-time nemesis, and the Turtles&#8217; mentor and adopted father&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Splinter_(TMNT)\">Splinter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 392px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/tmntlitesplinterweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The aim here was to make Splinter appear as serene as possible, reflecting his wise, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zen\">zen<\/a>-like approach to life. The tree in the background is supposed to be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bonsai\">bonsai<\/a>-like. Or maybe it <i>is<\/i> a bonsai tree, grown huge as a result of exposure to radioactive mutagen?<\/p>\n<p>This series illustrating TMNT supporting cast members follows a series from last year depicting the Turtles themselves: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bootlegsketch.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/turtle-power-part-1-of-4-leader.html\">Turtle Power (Part 1 of 4): Leader<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bootlegsketch.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/turtle-power-part-2-of-4-party-dude.html\">Turtle Power (Part 2 of 4): Party Dude<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bootlegsketch.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/turtle-power-part-3-of-4-does-machines.html\">Turtle Power (Part 3 of 4): Does Machines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bootlegsketch.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/turtle-power-part-4-of-4-cool-but-rude.html\">Turtle Power (Part 4 of 4): Cool But Rude<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following from last Tuesday&#8217;s post, here&#8217;s Shredder&#8217;s long-time nemesis, and the Turtles&#8217; mentor and adopted father&#8211;Splinter: The aim here was to make Splinter appear as serene as possible, reflecting his wise, zen-like approach to life. The tree in the background is supposed to be bonsai-like. Or maybe it is a bonsai tree, grown huge as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","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=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}