{"id":27957,"date":"2021-07-20T11:11:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27957"},"modified":"2021-07-20T11:11:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:11:48","slug":"al-jaffee-appreciates-his-fans-as-much-as-they-appreciate-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27957","title":{"rendered":"Al Jaffee Appreciates His Fans as Much as They Appreciate Him!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z072021aljaffee_thanks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back in February I posted about something that Sam Vivano (former <em>MAD magazine<\/em> art director and friend of Al Jaffee) called <a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=25125\">The Jaffee Project<\/a>.\u00a0 Sam&#8217;s idea was to get friends and fans of Al Jaffee to send in birthday cards to celebrate Jaffee&#8217;s 100th birthday.\u00a0 Al Jaffee was the artist who invented (and produced for decades) <em>Mad Magazine<\/em>&#8216;s fold-in page as well as <em>Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I sent in a birthday card wishing Mr. Jaffee a happy 100th and thanking him for all of the smiles he brought to me and fans around the world with the art he produced art for <em>Mad Magazine<\/em>.\u00a0 Little did I know Mr. Jaffee would present me with another smile.\u00a0 I received the post card above yesterday.\u00a0 What a cool gesture for Al Jaffee to respond to all of his fans.\u00a0 I love it when someone you admire turns out to be worthy of the admiration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February I posted about something that Sam Vivano (former MAD magazine art director and friend of Al Jaffee)<\/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":[58,17,56,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-comics","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957","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=27957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27958,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957\/revisions\/27958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}