{"id":2891,"date":"2014-05-22T09:35:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2014-05-22T10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T17:06:20","slug":"a-charlie-brown-academic-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/a-charlie-brown-academic-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Charlie Brown Scholarly Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got to read the article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/utpjournals.metapress.com\/content\/w552ht473484w376\/\">Christmas in the 1960s: A Charlie Brown Christmas, Religion,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/utpjournals.metapress.com\/content\/w552ht473484w376\/\">and the Conventions of the Television Genre<\/a>&#8220;, which appears in the current issue of\u00a0<em>The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture<\/em>. Written by (AAUGH Blog reader!) Stephen J. Lind (currently of Washington And Lee University), this article exists to tackle the question of whether the reputation that A Charlie Brown Christmas had, that it talked about Christmas in religious terms at a time when such a thing was not done on entertainment TV. Lind looks at a sample of other Christmas specials and Christmas episodes of series, and finds that the belief is (SPOILER WARNING) true&#8230; but along the way, he puts a crimp in another common belief about the show.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a mag that you&#8217;ll find on your corner newsstand, but you can probably get access to it through your local library. It&#8217;s a well put-together piece. (And the author is working on a book on Schulz and religion, which\u00a0is the sort of thing that I really look forward to.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got to read the article &#8220;Christmas in the 1960s: A Charlie Brown Christmas, Religion,\u00a0and the Conventions of the Television Genre&#8220;, which appears in the current issue of\u00a0The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. Written by (AAUGH Blog reader!) Stephen J. Lind (currently of Washington And Lee University), this &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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891","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=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}