{"id":4284,"date":"2012-05-23T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2012-05-23T03:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T07:38:00","slug":"the-origins-of-the-simpsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-origins-of-the-simpsons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins Of The Simpsons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052312_0732_TheOriginsO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Claudia De La Roca interviewed Matt Groening \u2013 the creator of The Simpsons and Futurama. The interview focused on the Simpsons and some highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Simpsons family is named after Groening&#8217;s own family. His father is named Homer, his mother, Margaret, and his two sisters Lisa and Maggie.<\/li>\n<li>Groening&#8217;s father, Homer, does not like donuts.<\/li>\n<li>Groening originally planned to name Bart&#8217;s character after himself however he felt that studio executives wouldn&#8217;t like it.<\/li>\n<li>Bart was selected because it sounded like Bark and Groening thought that sounded funny.<\/li>\n<li>The surname Simpsons was chosen because it has the word &#8216;simp&#8217; as in &#8216;simpleton&#8217; in it.<\/li>\n<li>Groening was bullied as a child but (possibly) got his revenge by naming the bullies in Simpsons after some of the bullies he encountered in real life.<\/li>\n<li>Writers enjoy writing for the show because there is no network interference, and as a cartoon there are no constraints on reality meaning that they can let their imaginations go wild.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the rules that Groening&#8217;s father set down about the way that Homer treated his wife, Groening&#8217;s relationship with Portland and how it influenced the show, which city Springfield is named after, and why the focus of the show shifted from Bart to Homer, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/Matt-Groening-Reveals-the-Location-of-the-Real-Springfield.html?c=y&amp;story=fullstory\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/Matt-Groening-Reveals-the-Location-of-the-Real-Springfield.html?c=y&amp;story=fullstory\">Smithsonian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisblattman.com\/2012\/04\/16\/links-i-liked-185\/\">Chris Blattman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claudia De La Roca interviewed Matt Groening \u2013 the creator of The Simpsons and Futurama. The interview focused on the Simpsons and some highlights include: The Simpsons family is named after Groening&#8217;s own family. His father is named Homer, his mother, Margaret, and his two sisters Lisa and Maggie. Groening&#8217;s father, Homer, does not like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052312_0732_TheOriginsO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}