{"id":26556,"date":"2025-06-30T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T07:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26556\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T07:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T07:32:29","slug":"how-can-i-be-sure-upper-west-sider-cracks-the-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26556\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Be Sure? Upper West Sider Cracks the Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Gary Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s illustration is subject-agnostic, meaning we could be talking about politics or climate or who will win the series. Every day is a roller coaster. For a while at least, we can be certain of that.<\/p>\n

Gary B. Martin<\/strong>\u00a0is an illustrator and animator who has lived on the Upper West Side for more than 30 years. His illustrations appear in the Rag on Sundays, chronicling life in the neighborhood, New York City, and the Universe. See them all\u00a0here<\/a>. For a broader range of Gary\u2019s work, including animations and other motion graphics, please visit\u00a0www.martoons.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Subscribe to West Side Rag\u2019s FREE email newsletter\u00a0here<\/a>. And you can Support the Rag\u00a0here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Gary Martin Today\u2019s illustration is subject-agnostic, meaning we could be talking about politics or climate or who…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,23238,23239,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-26556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-gary-martin","10":"tag-martoonerville","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114771154927870568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}