{"id":10250,"date":"2015-02-18T06:42:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10250"},"modified":"2015-02-16T12:43:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:43:36","slug":"20-years-ago-in-nexus-february-18-2015-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/02\/18\/20-years-ago-in-nexus-february-18-2015-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>20 Years Ago In<\/em> Nexus: February 18, 2015 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nexus-5-12-COVER-FOR-WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nexus-5-12-COVER-FOR-WEB-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Nexus 5-12 COVER FOR WEB\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nexus-5-12-COVER-FOR-WEB-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nexus-5-12-COVER-FOR-WEB.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nexus-5-12-COVER-FOR-WEB-180x131.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><b>Still with the <i>Family Circus<\/i>?:<\/b> We mentioned a while ago how one of our columnists from 20 years ago had spent some time trashing the comic <i>Family Circus<\/i>; the hate showed up again in a subsequent issue, and, amazingly, in a letter to the editor in our February 20, 1995 issue. After rallying against our <i>Shit Happens<\/i> columnist Brett Gossman for hundreds of words, letter-writer Gord Aro concludes with \u201cAs for Bil Keane and <i>Family Circus<\/i>, each to their own.\u201d I suspect we haven\u2019t heard the last of either side in this intense battle.<\/p>\n<p><b>I was right: <\/b>So, moving on down the page, we find the latest installment of <i>Shit Happens<\/i>, where Gossman goes on another rant talking about, yup, how much he hates <i>Family Circus<\/i> and its creator, Bil Keane. Gossman, you out there? Care to get in touch with us and let us know if the years have mellowed out your anger towards this comic?<\/p>\n<p><b>Negated nipples: <\/b>I feel like not a week goes by where I don\u2019t wonder why exactly I have nipples. I read about why men have nipples once, then forgot what I read, and constantly forget to look it up again. So, this issue\u2019s <i>Trivia<\/i> column, titled \u201cWhy do men have nipples?\u201d was very interesting to me. Why are they there? Among other reasons, they make up an erogenous zone to encourage hugging, says writer Lisha Gunn. Fine. I still think they look weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still with the Family Circus?: We mentioned a while ago how one of our columnists from 20 years ago had spent some time trashing the comic Family Circus; the hate showed up again in a subsequent issue, and, amazingly, in a letter to the editor in our February 20, 1995 issue. After rallying against our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-february-18-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10254,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions\/10254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}