{"id":2001,"date":"2026-10-14T17:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:02:16","slug":"7-flawless-far-side-comics-about-alien-invasions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=2001","title":{"rendered":"7 Flawless Far Side Comics About Alien Invasions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/far-side-creator-gary-larson-birthday-why-leave-comic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Larson grew up in the 1950s<\/a>, meaning <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/tag\/the-far-side\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Far Side&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/strong>creator came of age in an era of rampant UFO sightings, and more importantly, the first wave of classic science fiction movies about alien invasions. Like all of Larson&#8217;s interests and obsessions, this rattled around in his brain until he started doing daily <em>Far Side <\/em>cartoons, at which point it became the fodder for many classic jokes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Larson grew up in the 1950s, meaning The Far Side&#8217;screator came of age in an era of rampant UFO sightings, and more importantly, the first wave of classic science fiction movies about alien invasions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}