{"id":299,"date":"2004-04-08T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=299"},"modified":"2004-04-08T00:00:45","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T04:00:45","slug":"exercises-in-style-potential-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Exercises in Style: Potential Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"exercisesinstyle.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.exercisesinstyle.com\/\">exercisesinstyle.com<\/a> is a collection of comic exercises inspired by Queneau. It came out of the 1992 founding of OuBaPo (Ouvroir de la Bande Dessin\u00c8e Potentielle ) which in turn was inspired by OuLiPo. Neat.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHere is a quote from the About page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Exercises in Style<\/i> was inspired by a work of the same name by the French writer Raymond Queneau. In that book, Queneau spun 99 variations out of a mundane, two-part text about two chance encounters with a mildly irritating character during the course of a day. He started by telling it in every conceivable tense, then by doing it in free verse and as a sonnet, as a telegram, in pig latin, as a series of exclamations, in an indifferent voice&#8230; you name it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>exercisesinstyle.com is a collection of comic exercises inspired by Queneau. It came out of the 1992 founding of OuBaPo (Ouvroir de la Bande Dessin\u00c8e Potentielle ) which in turn was inspired by OuLiPo. Neat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}