{"id":1586,"date":"2011-12-25T19:54:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T19:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kommiekomiks.com\/driftwood\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2023-02-04T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:22:00","slug":"driftwood-9-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"Driftwood 9 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Update notice, January 1st 2012: <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nI am entertaining guests, so unfortunately I can&#8217;t draw the next page yet &#8230; It will be delayed a couple of days. V`(oo)\u00b4V<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>In the last panel, Willie is walking up Bottle Bank, with Tyne Bridge to the left. Today the street is a bit less picturesque, with a massive Hilton and some fancy new apartment complex in place of that empty lot and those old buildings. :o\/<br \/>\nHere are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturesofgateshead.co.uk\/bottle_bank\/index.html\">some photos of the street in 2001<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/isee.gateshead.gov.uk\/detail.php?type=related&amp;kv=3464&amp;t=objects\">here is an aerial view<\/a> from one of the Tyne Bridge towers from 1997. <a href=\"http:\/\/isee.gateshead.gov.uk\/info.php?s=bottle+bank&amp;type=all&amp;t=objects\">iSee Gateshead<\/a> has many more historical photos.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit frustrated, because part of me wants to show as much as possible of Gateshead the way it was in 1998, but it&#8217;s not easy to find enough reference to portray the lost places accurately &#8230; V`(oo)\u00b4V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update notice, January 1st 2012: I am entertaining guests, so unfortunately I can&#8217;t draw the next page yet &#8230; It will be delayed a couple of days. V`(oo)\u00b4V * * * In the last panel, Willie is walking up Bottle Bank, with Tyne Bridge to the left. Today the street is a bit less picturesque, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftwood-chapter-9","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}