{"id":1534,"date":"2009-08-10T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2009-10-13T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T20:14:31","slug":"calvin-and-hobbes-for-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/10\/calvin-and-hobbes-for-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin and Hobbes For Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a parent, and a geek desperately clinging to his childhood, this image really speaks to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/calvin_hobbes_grown.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Calvin and Hobbes: The Future - Don't put away your childish things.  Save them for your child.\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/calvin_hobbes_grown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of <em>Calvin &amp; Hobbes<\/em> since the early days of its publication.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got my own inner-Calvin, so I really connected with the daily strip.\u00a0 I was very wrapped up in the series back then and was about crushed when Bill Watterson retired.\u00a0 Now years later, I&#8217;m raising two children and passing on my own childhood interests to them.\u00a0 On top of the emotional impact of the image, I gotta say the artist did a phenomenal job mimicking Watterson&#8217;s style.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Makes me want to shed some parental-man-tears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Originally found at <a title=\"Motivated Photos.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.motivatedphotos.com\/?id=11929\">MotivatedPhotos.com<\/a>.\u00a0 My thanks to SGhoul for sending me this image.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1534\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/10\/calvin-and-hobbes-for-parents\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1534\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/10\/calvin-and-hobbes-for-parents\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/10\/calvin-and-hobbes-for-parents\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/10\/calvin-and-hobbes-for-parents\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1534\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/10\/calvin-and-hobbes-for-parents\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a parent, and a geek desperately clinging to his childhood, this image really speaks to me. 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