{"id":3904,"date":"2015-09-30T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2015-09-30T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:06:06","slug":"joanne-greenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/joanne-greenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanne Greenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just looking at\u00a0<strong>&#8220;I Never Promised You an Apple Orchard&#8221;: The collected Writings of SNOOPY<\/strong>, a 1976 storybook by Schulz (which is largely gags taken from the strip, although the art is all new), and I saw that it was dedicated &#8220;For Joanne Greenberg, of course&#8221;. Of course.<\/p>\n<p>So being my ignorant li&#8217;l self, I had to look it up. Joanne Greenberg is the real person who wielded the name &#8220;Hannah Green&#8221; to write the 1964 novel\u00a0<em>I Never Promised You a Rose Garden<\/em>, a semi-autobiographical tale about teenaged Deborah Blau struggling with mental illness. (She went on to be a professor in creative writing at the Colorado School of Mines, which I&#8217;ve always assumed was a school where you could major in being a miner.) So for those of you who thought that Snoopy may have been inspired by the hit 1970 song &#8220;(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden&#8221;, nope. It was inspired by Greenberg, writing as Green, about herself as Blau. Of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just looking at\u00a0&#8220;I Never Promised You an Apple Orchard&#8221;: The collected Writings of SNOOPY, a 1976 storybook by Schulz (which is largely gags taken from the strip, although the art is all new), and I saw that it was dedicated &#8220;For Joanne Greenberg, of course&#8221;. Of course. So &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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-answered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","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=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}