{"id":17041,"date":"2016-12-22T19:21:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T23:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17041"},"modified":"2016-12-27T13:36:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:36:53","slug":"the-traditional-jim-ivey-bi-annual-get-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17041","title":{"rendered":"The Traditional Jim Ivey Bi-Annual Get-Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z122216jimivey_christmas_breakfast.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier today, I picked up Jim Ivey [the gent getting the finger-point] and we headed to Robinson&#8217;s Diner in Apopka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z122216jimivey_christmas_breakfast2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"115\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once at Robinson&#8217;s, Jim and I met up with (from left to right) Rob Smith,\u00a0Mike Sikes, Cliff Weikal, and Bill Black. \u00a0We&#8217;ve all been friends since the 1970&#8217;s and met through Jim Ivey&#8217;s Cartoon Museum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I try to get the group together a couple of times a year [Jim&#8217;s birthday and Christmas] and it is always a blast spending time with the crew and reminiscing. \u00a0This time was no exception. \u00a0We always bring Jim gifts and this time he received some of his favorites: cigars, lottery tickets, and a Roy Crane book. \u00a0After breakfast Jim and I made the traditional trip to pick him up some Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream for him for later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s always a blast seeing Jim [still &#8220;full of prunes and macaroons&#8221; at 91] and the gang. \u00a0Hopefully John Beatty will be able to join us next go round.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If any of Jim&#8217;s old friends are reading this &#8212; he loves snail mail. \u00a0Contact me and I&#8217;ll forward you his address!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, I picked up Jim Ivey [the gent getting the finger-point] and we headed to Robinson&#8217;s Diner in Apopka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17042,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041\/revisions\/17042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}