{"id":3477,"date":"2012-02-24T01:45:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2012-02-24T01:59:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:59:34","slug":"letters-from-raphael-february-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/letters-from-raphael-february-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"1998-02 &#8211; Letters from Raphael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Sup?<\/p>\n<p>As usual, &#8216;s been a bit since we last posted any news&#8230; time flies by all too fast anymore. Can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s almost Spring (well&#8230; &#8220;almost&#8221; might be a bit of an exaggeration&#8230; but I sure am in the mood for it. Despite having a pretty nice winter, I&#8217;m still in need of some sunshine. Grey days make it hard to be positive, know what I&#8217;m sayin&#8217;?)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been hangin&#8217; with some of the ex-Foot members. A small group of &#8217;em came to me for &#8220;guidance&#8221; awhile ago&#8230; heh! That&#8217;s kinda scary, no? ;) Anyways, some of &#8217;em are actually from Japan, which is very cool&#8230; I&#8217;m exchanging some good knowledge with &#8217;em&#8230; teach them to fight better, they teach me some of my heritage that Master Splinter doesn&#8217;t want us to know about (ninjas weren&#8217;t particularly nice guys historically, ya know). Anyways, the reason I&#8217;m tellin&#8217; ya this is that I want ya to know that some birds<strong>can<\/strong>\u00a0change the color of their feathers. These guys are okay in my book&#8230; if you&#8217;d told me a year ago that some of my buds would be from the Foot, I&#8217;d have socked ya one&#8230; but it&#8217;s true. O&#8217; course, they don&#8217;t call themselves Foot anymore&#8230; if they did I&#8217;d have to bonk &#8217;em! ;P<\/p>\n<p>Saw Casey awhile ago. We kinda got into it a bit. He doesn&#8217;t think I should be hangin&#8217; with ex-Foot soldiers&#8230; I told him he was being a close-minded #$%! and he took that kinda personal. I dunno&#8230; Casey has really changed lately&#8230; he got all &#8220;conservative&#8221; or something. We left on bad terms, which has me kinda bummed. Maybe he&#8217;ll call me. I&#8217;m not callin&#8217; him&#8230; he&#8217;s the one with the problem. I told him he should meet the guys and they&#8217;d change his mind, but he refused. &#8220;Once a crook,\u00a0<strong>always<\/strong>\u00a0a crook!&#8221; were his last words to me and then he stormed off&#8230; Case has a mighty big stubborn streak in him. I dunno&#8230; maybe there&#8217;s deeper things goin&#8217; down with him. Maybe he&#8217;s bummed that he can&#8217;t hang in the streets anymore, now that he&#8217;s got a baby to look after. Whatever. Times change, ya know.<\/p>\n<p>Master Splinter got poisoned by that geek Bonesteel a few days back. Me and Leo went to give him our thanks&#8230; I doubt he&#8217;ll be sending us any more presents for awhile. Splinter is lookin&#8217; better today, but still don&#8217;t seem right. I twisted Bonehead&#8217;s arm until he gave us the antidote&#8230; it better have been the right one!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a wrap for now. Gonna go meet up with the boys of the Clan Sai tonight for some training. If I can whip these guys into shape, we&#8217;ll finally have a powerful ally in this town. Wouldn&#8217;t that be freaky?<\/p>\n<p><center>Later,<br \/>\nRaph<\/center>This letter was featured on NinjaTurtles.com and written by Dan Berger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Sup? As usual, &#8216;s been a bit since we last posted any news&#8230; time flies by all too fast anymore. Can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s almost Spring (well&#8230; &#8220;almost&#8221; might be a bit of an exaggeration&#8230; but I sure am in the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/letters-from-raphael-february-1998\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[3,446,88],"tags":[41,447,21],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-letters","category-othercomics","tag-dan-berger","tag-letter","tag-raphael"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}