{"id":1083,"date":"2015-07-22T03:18:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2015-07-22T03:18:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T03:18:08","slug":"prisoner106-book-cover-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/prisoner106-book-cover-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"prisoner106: Book Cover Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although my favorite writer of books about TV shows is the inimitable Peggy Herz of &#8220;All About Rhoda&#8221; and &#8220;The Truth About Fonzie&#8221; fame, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Paul W. Fairman\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_W._Fairman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Paul W. Fairman<\/a>, of the Partridge Family novels, is a close second. He also wrote pulp Science Fiction and novelizations of the &#8220;That Girl&#8221; TV series. We would order such books from the Scholastic Bookclub at school. I read three Partridge Family novels in a row one summer in the 5th grade, and afterwards, I think I was the youngest person in my grammar school to be filled with a sense of existential dread and a horrible fore-boding about the fate of humanity. Later that year, they re-elected Nixon. I was upset. I was sent home from school for writing his name on my desk in pencil with the &#8220;x&#8221; in his name drawn as a swastika. I dedicate this assignment to Mr. Fairman and the gang at Miller Street School.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Partridge-Prisoner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1085 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Partridge-Prisoner.png\" alt=\"Partridge-Prisoner\" width=\"447\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Partridge-Prisoner.png 600w, https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Partridge-Prisoner-182x300.png 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used the GIMP editor and matched fonts and colors as closely as a could to the period.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer-reporter.com\/article\/20150707\/COLUMN0401\/150709649\" target=\"_blank\">Most television viewers can separate entertainment from daily life<\/a> (observer-reporter.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/forevervogue.com\/david-cassidys-florida-mansion-with-private-dock-and-pool-to-be-auctioned-off-as-part-of-bankruptcy-proceedings\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Cassidy&#8217;s Florida mansion with private dock and pool to be auctioned off as part of bankruptcy proceedings<\/a> (forevervogue.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although my favorite writer of books about TV shows is the inimitable Peggy Herz of &#8220;All About Rhoda&#8221; and &#8220;The Truth About Fonzie&#8221; fame, Paul W. Fairman, of the Partridge Family novels, is a close second. He also wrote pulp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/prisoner106-book-cover-assignment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[1056,1026,1105,1106,1057],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds106","tag-prisoner106","tag-design","tag-designassignments","tag-designassignments55","tag-ds106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}