{"id":14889,"date":"2020-02-21T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2020\/02\/21\/in-the-bleak-midwinter\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:59","slug":"in-the-bleak-midwinter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2020\/02\/21\/in-the-bleak-midwinter\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Bleak Midwinter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Not so bleak, actually quite bright, but freakin&#8217; <em>cold<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Last night at Comics Club I finally had a chance to start my new diary comics sketchbook.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been putting it off, partly because I&#8217;ve been so busy with work, illustrating a new quarterly book as well as doing lots of odd cartooning jobs for various other teams in the company.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been hesitant to start this new book because I made it from the last of my favourite paper. <em>Boo hoo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The longer I put off starting, the more ideas and events piled up into a big, intimidating ball &#8212; so I produced this four-panel pile of non-sequiturs. But at least I&#8217;ve started!<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figure class=\"wp-image-2116\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1727\/img_3595.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/figure><\/figure>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so bleak, actually quite bright, but freakin&#8217; cold. Last night at Comics Club I finally had a chance to start my new diary comics sketchbook. I&#8217;ve been putting it off, partly because I&#8217;ve been so busy with work, illustrating a new quarterly book as well as doing lots of odd cartooning jobs for various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}