{"id":7936,"date":"2016-05-25T18:03:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T22:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2016-05-25T18:03:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T22:03:03","slug":"mell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/mell\/","title":{"rendered":"Mell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7937\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7937\" class=\"wp-image-7937 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mark-and-mell.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Szorady with Mell Lazarus at the 2006 NCS Reuben Awards in Chicago, Illinois\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mark-and-mell.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mark-and-mell-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Szorady with Mell Lazarus at the 2006 NCS Reuben Awards in Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mell Lazarus passed away on May 24th. \u00a0He was the best. \u00a0He was accomplished and loved. \u00a0Many remember him as a cartoonist, humorist, writer, and novelist. \u00a0But all will undoubtedly \u00a0remember him as a true gentleman. \u00a0He had a kind heart and a generous spirit. \u00a0 He was well-liked and admired by his cartooning peers. \u00a0He was genial and \u00a0warm. \u00a0Look up the word &#8220;gregarious&#8221; and you&#8217;ll see Mell&#8217;s picture.<\/p>\n<p>The National Cartoonists Society hands out many awards for cartooning achievement. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t had the honor of winning any of those awards. \u00a0However,\u00a0for me,\u00a0the greatest award and honor was being Mell&#8217;s friend.<\/p>\n<p>I miss him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mell Lazarus passed away on May 24th. \u00a0He was the best. \u00a0He was accomplished and loved. \u00a0Many remember him as a cartoonist, humorist, writer, and novelist. \u00a0But all will undoubtedly \u00a0remember him as a true gentleman. \u00a0He had a kind heart and a generous spirit. \u00a0 He was well-liked and admired by his cartooning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,1355,912,589],"class_list":["post-7936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-mell-lazarus","tag-national-cartoonists-society","tag-ncs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7939,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions\/7939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}