{"id":3395,"date":"2014-12-27T11:25:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T19:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2014-12-27T11:25:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T19:25:23","slug":"cringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/cringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For someone who knows a little bit about Peanuts history, it can be frustrating to see a popular piece that expands little facts into bigger fictions, as with the <em>Good Morning America piece<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/charlie-brown-christmas-turn-50-114937806.html\">\u2018A Charlie Brown Christmas\u2019 to Turn 50<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the original special did incorporate the Coca-Cola name on screen. No, the product\u00a0was not invoked throughout the special as this claims &#8211; it was twice, once at the beginning, once at the end. Just the two times that they show in the story (which is the only reason I&#8217;d recommend this piece, for those of you who have not seen those clips.) Peanuts animation specialist Scott McGuire covers that well in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fivecentsplease.org\/2012\/12\/a-charlie-brown-christmas-coca-cola.html\">this blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And while it may have been cute to include a five year old to end the piece, you should not claim that the child knows the true meaning of the special when she says\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s about sharing!\u201d No, it&#8217;s not. Really, about the only sharing that goes on is when Snoopy&#8217;s decorations get &#8220;shared&#8221; with the pathetic tree&#8230; and it&#8217;s not Snoopy that does the sharing (the gang strip his prize-winning house decorations and transfer them to the tree while he&#8217;s out of frame.)<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know what\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>\u00a0is all about&#8230; ask Linus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For someone who knows a little bit about Peanuts history, it can be frustrating to see a popular piece that expands little facts into bigger fictions, as with the Good Morning America piece\u00a0\u2018A Charlie Brown Christmas\u2019 to Turn 50. Yes, the original special did incorporate the Coca-Cola name on screen. &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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animated-peanuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","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=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}