{"id":2168,"date":"2008-10-23T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2008-10-23T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T06:01:00","slug":"monsters-of-breakfast-3-of-5-ghost-of-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2168","title":{"rendered":"Monsters of Breakfast (3 of 5): Ghost of a Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><b>The Subject<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Mills\">General Mills<\/a> cereal monsters.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Twist<\/b>: Drawing them in the style of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capcom\">Capcom<\/a>&#8216;s fighting game franchise, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darkstalkers\">Darkstalkers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of recognizability, today&#8217;s subject probably falls on the median&#8211;surely many of you must be accquainted with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boo_Berry\">Boo Berry<\/a>. In terms of back-story, I imagine Boo Berry was a jazz singer (something of a dandy) from New Orleans, who got involved with some criminals and was killed. His ghost can be seen haunting the New Orleans night, singing mournful jazz ballads, and battling supernatural creatures with his powerful <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_(fighting_games)\">super moves<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Combo_(computer_and_video_games)\">combos<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure where the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blueberry\">blueberries<\/a> enter into the equation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/cerealbbweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/cerealbbweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m unsatisfied with how Boo Berry&#8217;s ghostly aura turned out&#8230; it doesn&#8217;t really read.<\/p>\n<p>Is anyone sick of my punny <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non-sequitir\">non-sequitur<\/a> titles? I know I am, but I&#8217;ve set a precedent, so my hands are tied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Subject: General Mills cereal monsters. The Twist: Drawing them in the style of Capcom&#8216;s fighting game franchise, Darkstalkers. In terms of recognizability, today&#8217;s subject probably falls on the median&#8211;surely many of you must be accquainted with Boo Berry. In terms of back-story, I imagine Boo Berry was a jazz singer (something of a dandy) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-mascots","category-monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","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=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}