{"id":161,"date":"2006-08-08T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T19:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2006-08-08T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T19:49:05","slug":"tamara-drewe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Tamara Drewe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a terrible moment in Saturday&#8217;s <em>Guardian,<\/em>  to which I cannot link because it involved something that was not there. The <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/tamaradrewe\/archive\/0,,1575156,00.html\">Tamara Drewe<\/a> strip, done by Posy Simmonds, had suddenly vanished after 80 episodes as the story approached its climax. This is a genuine graphic novel, published in instalments, about real and phony emotions. It is as brilliant as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/posysimmonds\/page\/0,,1193650,00.html\">any<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/posysimmonds\/page\/0,,1366101,00.html\">previous<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/posysimmonds\/page\/0,,1301952,00.html\">Posy<\/a> strip, and much better, in my opinion, than Gemma Bovery.<\/p>\n\n<p>Apparently thay have been deluged with calls and letters from disappointed readers. But there is an explanation. Posy is on holiday. The strip will resume in September. Apparently there was an explanation, printed in one line under the colour photograph where the strip should have been. I&#8217;m very glad I wasn&#8217;t the only reader to miss this and panic.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a terrible moment in Saturday&#8217;s Guardian, to which I cannot link because it involved something that was not there. The Tamara Drewe strip, done by Posy Simmonds, had suddenly vanished after 80 episodes as the story approached its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}