{"id":19771,"date":"2018-04-23T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19771"},"modified":"2018-04-22T17:05:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T22:05:15","slug":"how-can-we-miss-it-if-it-hasnt-gone-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/23\/how-can-we-miss-it-if-it-hasnt-gone-away\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Miss It If It Hasn&#8217;t Gone Away?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/mad-magazine-relaunch\/\" target=\"_new\">THE RETURN OF MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS ALL-NEW GANG OF IDIOTS<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MORE THAN 40 years ago this month, MAD Magazine founder William M. Gaines managed to outrage hundreds of his loyal readers, all by barely lifting a finger. For the April 1974 issue of his happily juvenile comedy rag\u2014a mix of pop-culture parodies, political humor, and sound-effect-saturated comic strips\u2014Gaines\u2019 staff went with a cover illustration guaranteed to shock school teachers and parents around the country: A raised middle finger, accompanied by the declaration that MAD was the \u201cNumber One Ecch Magazine.\u201d Gaines had casually approved the image, which he didn\u2019t even find that funny. But when some of the magazine\u2019s nearly 2 million readers began complaining, he wound up personally writing letters of apology. \u201cWe put it out, and the roof fell in,\u201d Gaines later said of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine a similarly outraged reaction to the just-released MAD No. 1, the first issue since its publisher, DC Entertainment, announced a much-needed relaunch. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Wired<\/em> makes it sound like <em>Mad<\/em> had gone away.  But it had not.  As a matter of fact, we bought a subscription for our oldest son for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the <em>Wired<\/em> writer knew that.  Or it mattered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RETURN OF MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS ALL-NEW GANG OF IDIOTS: MORE THAN 40 years ago this month, MAD Magazine founder William M. Gaines managed to outrage hundreds of his loyal readers, all by barely lifting a finger. For the April 1974 issue of his happily juvenile comedy rag\u2014a mix of pop-culture parodies, political humor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19772,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771\/revisions\/19772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}