{"id":317,"date":"2010-10-15T11:41:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T11:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/?p=317"},"modified":"2010-10-15T11:41:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T11:41:39","slug":"day-14-flippa-dippa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/2010\/10\/15\/day-14-flippa-dippa\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 14: Flippa-Dippa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/FlippaDippaJO134pg10-11_sml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"318\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/2010\/10\/15\/day-14-flippa-dippa\/flippadippajo134pg10-11_sml\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/FlippaDippaJO134pg10-11_sml.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"675,234\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FlippaDippaJO#134pg10-11_sml\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/FlippaDippaJO134pg10-11_sml-300x104.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/FlippaDippaJO134pg10-11_sml.jpg\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/FlippaDippaJO134pg10-11_sml.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"FlippaDippaJO#134pg10-11_sml\" width=\"675\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/FlippaDippaJO134pg10-11_sml.jpg 675w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/FlippaDippaJO134pg10-11_sml-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/FlippaDippaJO134pg10-11_sml-624x216.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, okay, this is way off the chronology as far as first-appearances here, but this scrawny kid is full of pugnacious courage and off-the-wall craziness, all in his perennial scuba gear, I gotta single him out&#8230; I just love it when Jack goes a little bonkers: I mean, how was the King thinking he could regularly use a newspaper delivery boy-slash-adventurer who always wears a wet suit, flippers, diving mask and oxygen tanks??? You&#8217;d think the lad would be a&#8230; errr&#8230; fish out of water, wouldn&#8217;t ya? Well, this sequence, taking place during the wild underwater ride on the Zoomway, is your answer, skeptics!<\/p>\n<p>Flip is, natch, the newest member of the New Newsboy Legion (given he wasn&#8217;t <em>born<\/em> into the group). In a follow-up ish, we find that his unnamed father (Mr. Dippa?) is coincidentally associated with the now grown-up original Newsboy Legion! I mean, what are the odds&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t figured out if the newest Newsboy&#8217;s official name is Flipper Dipper (sometimes with a hyphen) or Flippa-Dippa (sometimes without). Me, I dig the non-parenthetical latter, dig?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, okay, this is way off the chronology as far as first-appearances here, but this scrawny kid is full of pugnacious courage and off-the-wall craziness, all in his perennial scuba gear, I gotta single him out&#8230; I just love it when Jack goes a little bonkers: I mean, how was the King thinking he could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6,8,11,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-entries","category-earth","category-heroes","category-jimmy-olsen-133","category-supporting-characters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3urou-57","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}