{"id":747,"date":"2009-02-16T21:06:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T04:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwwold.sketchwar.org\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-01-24T09:09:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T16:09:09","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/?page_id=747","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sketch War started one cold Friday in February of &#8217;08 as so many things do: because some boys are overly competitive. Mr. Brownlee had posted a sketch on his personal blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/wwwold.sketchwar.org\/sketches\/friday-funnys-sketch-edition\/\">reproduced here<\/a> for your enjoyment) indicating his desire to be more disciplined about writing regularly. Mr. Porter read that sketch and responded the only way a juvenile man could: writing <a href=\"http:\/\/wwwold.sketchwar.org\/sketches\/friday-night-sketch-war\/\">his own sketch<\/a> and challenging Mr Brownlee to regular battle.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next 10 months they, and some other funny people, wrote sketches on their personal blogs every Friday night. In December they launched a new groupblog on Blogger for a more concentrated dose of bemusement. The boys got a lucky break in February &#8217;09 when Chuck Westbrook featured them in his <a href=\"http:\/\/chuckwestbrook.com\/introducing-sketch-war\/\">Blog Mob Project<\/a>. Which of course made them realize how badly they needed a hosted solution.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in contributing to Sketch War, contact us at <a href=\"mailto:\/\/sketchwar@sketchwar.org\">sketchwar@sketchwar.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sketch War started one cold Friday in February of &#8217;08 as so many things do: because some boys are overly competitive. Mr. Brownlee had posted a sketch on his personal blog (reproduced here for your enjoyment) indicating his desire to be more disciplined about writing regularly. Mr. Porter read that sketch and responded the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-747","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/747\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}