{"id":364,"date":"2007-11-20T17:49:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T00:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=364"},"modified":"2007-11-20T17:49:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T00:49:51","slug":"snoopys-lost-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/snoopys-lost-christmas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoopy&#8217;s lost Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Panel from The Christmas Story\" title=\"Panel from The Christmas Story\" src=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/images\/christmasstory.jpg\" \/>Just added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library: the December 1968 issue of <em>Woman&#8217;s Day<\/em> magazine. Why? Because starting on page 46, there&#8217;s a four page, twelve panel original Peanuts tale: &#8220;The Christmas Story&#8221;. As Snoopy listens on, Linus quotes from the bible (the same quote he&#8217;d put forth on TV three years earlier) and Lucy muses on Santa. Like the better-known &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=52\">Charlie Brown&#8217;s Christmas Stocking<\/a>&#8221; from five years earlier, this is a &#8220;lost&#8221; piece of real Schulz, unreprinted in the ensuing years. The story, black linework on colored pages, is such a draw that it&#8217;s the focus of the cover.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice little piece (although admittedly, I like &#8220;Christmas Stocking&#8221; better), and given the strong public connection between Peanuts and Christmas, I&#8217;m a bit surprised that these works haven&#8217;t been put to more use. (Although I did recently learn that &#8220;Christmas Stocking&#8221; was put to a double use at the time; Charles and Joyce Schulz used extra copies as their Christmas card!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library: the December 1968 issue of Woman&#8217;s Day magazine. Why? Because starting on page 46, there&#8217;s a four page, twelve panel original Peanuts tale: &#8220;The Christmas Story&#8221;. As Snoopy listens on, Linus quotes from the bible (the same quote he&#8217;d put forth on TV &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}