{"id":15499,"date":"2011-02-09T13:16:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=15499"},"modified":"2011-02-09T13:16:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:16:37","slug":"webcomics-love-john-porcellinos-king-cat-comics-diogenes-of-cinope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/webcomics-love-john-porcellinos-king-cat-comics-diogenes-of-cinope\/","title":{"rendered":"Webcomics Love: John Porcellino&#8217;s King-Cat Comics, &#8220;Diogenes of Cinope&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the archives of <a href=\"http:\/\/whatthingsdo.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">What Things Do<\/a> we pulled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.king-cat.net\/history.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">John Porcellino<\/a>&#8216;s comic on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diogenes_of_Sinope\" class=\"external external_icon\">Diognes of Cinope<\/a>. Diognes was the only pupil of Antisthenes, a source of Plato&#8217;s humiliation, and he openly mocked Alexander the Great. He was also a founder of Cynicism and he once walked the town in the daytime carrying a lamp looking for a human being. <\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t say if he ever found one.<\/p>\n<p>Now Diognes has been immortalized in a webcomic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official site:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.king-cat.net\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">http:\/\/www.king-cat.net\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/whatthingsdo.com\/authors\/john-porcellino\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">http:\/\/whatthingsdo.com\/authors\/john-porcellino\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching Alexander<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/whatthingsdo.com\/comic\/diogenes-of-sinope\/#\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/kc68_131-e1296717045616.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"The bones of King and slave\" width=\"600\" height=\"996\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Who is Diogenes? (The short version)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/whatthingsdo.com\/comic\/diogenes-of-sinope\/#\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/kc68_101-e1296717114848.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Before there&#039;s a story, there&#039;s a story...\" width=\"600\" height=\"881\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15501\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>He was rather dramatic wasn&#8217;t he?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatthingsdo.com\/comic\/diogenes-of-sinope\/#\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/kc68_111-e1296717209350.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"A bowl in hand...\" width=\"600\" height=\"1932\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15502\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the archives of What Things Do we pulled John Porcellino&#8216;s comic on Diognes of Cinope. Diognes was the only pupil of Antisthenes, a source of Plato&#8217;s humiliation, and he openly mocked Alexander the Great. He was also a founder of Cynicism and he once walked the town in the daytime carrying a lamp looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,49,669],"tags":[3891,4938,1088,3889,4956,1192,3914,3890],"class_list":["post-15499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-comics","category-panel-perfect","tag-diogenes-of-cinope","tag-artist","tag-comics-will-save-us","tag-john-porcellino","tag-panel-perfect","tag-webcomics","tag-webcomics-love","tag-what-things-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15568,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499\/revisions\/15568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}