{"id":9639,"date":"2010-04-23T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9639"},"modified":"2010-03-28T14:26:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T19:26:28","slug":"froh-kelly-the-five-year-itch-of-dorothy-barry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9639","title":{"rendered":"Froh, Kelly &#8211; The Five Year Itch of Dorothy Barry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kellyfroh.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dorothybarry1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"dorothybarry1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dorothybarry1-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Five Year Itch of Dorothy Barry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People have occasionally asked me over the years how I pick what I&#8217;m  going to review on any given day, and it&#8217;s a simple formula: I keep a  literal pile of comics, with the ones sent in the mail at the top (as  they get precedence over the ones I buy), and sort of reach in and grab a  random one. In the case of this comic, I&#8217;ve been moving all week, have  no idea where much of anything is (and my &#8220;pile&#8221; is scattered through  various boxes), but this comic fell out of a pile of old bills, and  voila! Internet magic! This is the story of a resident at an  assisted-living home where Kelly works, with the names changed to  protect everybody, who flips out every five years, invariably causing  her to get kicked out of wherever she&#8217;s living at the time. Kelly paints  a great picture of the chaos that comes over the whole establishment as  Dorothy starts to think that she&#8217;s actually the one in charge of  everything, ending with a black eye for an employee and cops getting  involved. Great stuff from Kelly as always, and my advice to her, which  I&#8217;m sure she already knows: there are probably plenty of stories to be  had from that job. I worked for a few years as a night watchman at a  home for&#8230; is &#8220;mentally challenged&#8221; the right word now? Anyway, while  there are lots of dull days, the ones that aren&#8217;t dull are certainly  memorable. No price, but let&#8217;s say $2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dorothybarry2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"dorothybarry2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dorothybarry2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Five Year Itch of Dorothy Barry People have occasionally asked me over the years how I pick what I&#8217;m going to review on any given day, and it&#8217;s a simple formula: I keep a literal pile of comics, with the ones sent in the mail at the top (as they get precedence over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2626,1119],"class_list":["post-9639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-kelly-froh","tag-the-five-year-itch-of-dorothy-barry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9650,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions\/9650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}