{"id":1731,"date":"2008-11-04T13:55:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2008-11-04T14:03:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:03:52","slug":"from-keith-knights-mouth-to-gods-ear-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/from-keith-knights-mouth-to-gods-ear-please\/","title":{"rendered":"From Keith Knight&#8217;s Mouth to God&#8217;s Ear, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoonist <a title=\"Keith Knight's home page\" href=\"http:\/\/kchronicles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Knight<\/a> is a regular contributor to my favorite monthly magazine, <a title=\"Funny Times home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnytimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Funny Times<\/em><\/a>. To break the routine from his main comic strip, called The K Chronicles, he occasionally does a strip called &#8220;Life&#8217;s Little Victories.&#8221; He builds these strips from ideas submitted by readers &#8212; little one- or two-panel ideas describing the little things that make life worth living.<\/p>\n<p>From the weekly <em>Funny Times<\/em> &#8220;Take a Break&#8221; cartoon email newsletter, here&#8217;s a recent and highly relevant collection of such victories (numbers 265 through 270), applicable across the political spectrum:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: .25em; padding: .25em; border: 1px solid silver;\" title=\"Keith Knight's Election-Day Little Victories strip\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/kknightlittlevictories_200811.jpg?resize=500%2C660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Keith Knight's Election-Day Little Victories strip\" width=\"500\" height=\"660\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of all US holidays, Election Day is at once the most mundane and the most sacred. No one gets presents (other than figurative ones), almost no one gets the day off from work, and celebrating it &#8212; usually &#8212; takes just a few minutes of time, alone with your own thoughts. Yet somehow, it&#8217;s still capable of making your pulse race and tears start to your eyes. There is not a single other citizen with whom you can&#8217;t share the day.<\/p>\n<p>Really hope you&#8217;re celebrating this year; it just won&#8217;t be the same without you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoonist Keith Knight is a regular contributor to my favorite monthly magazine, The Funny Times. 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