{"id":63561,"date":"2025-12-07T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63561\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:52:09","slug":"things-are-getting-weird-on-the-upper-west-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63561\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Are Getting Weird on the Upper West Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dogWalking-wsr-MASTER-header-1500x1080-300-v6b.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-98757 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dogWalking-wsr-MASTER-header-1500x1080-300-v6b-1024x737.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"737\"\/><\/a><br \/>By Gary Martin<\/p>\n<p>I love when dogs dress like people. Nothing like being shown up by someone who still eats socks.<\/p>\n<p>Gary B. Martin\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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/tag\/gary-martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. For a broader range of Gary\u2019s work, including animations and other motion graphics, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.martoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.martoons.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1719229187970000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1bOOD2smqvtI7tOf8yv0D9\">www.martoons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen to Rag Radio\u2019s interview with Gary Martin \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2025\/07\/27\/rag-radio-gary-martins-cranky-cartoon-alter-ego\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to West Side Rag\u2019s FREE email newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westsiderag.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=5772ebf2a0a585445f1188785&amp;id=f50755d5f9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. And you can Support the Rag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/support-west-side-rag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Gary Martin I love when dogs dress like people. Nothing like being shown up by someone who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20318,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-63561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-martoonerville","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}