{"id":2549,"date":"2013-08-03T21:02:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T04:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2013-08-03T21:04:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T04:04:49","slug":"what-a-peanuts-book-collector-becomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/what-a-peanuts-book-collector-becomes\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Peanuts book collector becomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out (actually, I think this was pointed out to me once before, but I forgot) that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Complete-Peanuts-1959-1960-Volume\/dp\/1847671497\/ref=nosim\/aaugh-20\/?1847671497\"> the British edition of <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Complete-Peanuts-1959-1960-Volume\/dp\/1847671497\/ref=nosim\/aaugh-20\/?1847671497\">The Complete Peanuts: 1959-1960<\/a><\/strong> has an introduction not by Whoopi Goldberg (as the US edition has), but by Russell T. Davies. Davies, who talks (among other things) about his youthful quest to complete a numbered set of British Peanuts books, grew up to become a key writer\/producer in British television, creating such series as <em>Queer As Folk<\/em> and reviving <em>Doctor Who<\/em>. As his intro tells you (you can read part of it using the Look Inside feature at the link above), when he was young he was a fan of both Doctor Who and Snoopy, so it&#8217; s no surprise that he eventually changed his name to Who-oopy. No, wait, that was the other intro writer. Dang, that would&#8217;ve been so logical!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out (actually, I think this was pointed out to me once before, but I forgot) that the British edition of The Complete Peanuts: 1959-1960 has an introduction not by Whoopi Goldberg (as the US edition has), but by Russell T. Davies. Davies, who talks (among other things) &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-finds","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}