{"id":398,"date":"2008-04-21T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=398"},"modified":"2008-04-21T12:00:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T19:00:58","slug":"things-to-look-for-in-complete-peanuts-1967-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/things-to-look-for-in-complete-peanuts-1967-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to look for in Complete Peanuts 1967-1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from Texas, where (in addition to a fun signing) I had time to read through the <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1560978260\">latest <strong>Complete Peanuts<\/strong> volume<\/a>. There is a lot of interesting stuff there, of course. Such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which member of the cast is on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency?<\/li>\n<li>Which kid&#8217;s family no longer has a church?<\/li>\n<li>Snoopy draws!<\/li>\n<li>Snoopy namedrops General Pershing and fashion model Twiggy&#8230; in the same week.<\/li>\n<li>Charlie Brown stays in solid darkness for several days, simplifying Schulz&#8217;s drawing time.<\/li>\n<li>Schulz shows his vast range, when on August 6, 1967 he has seven consecutive panels of just Lucy silently sitting there, waiting, building effectively to a climax&#8230; and 16 days later, he has 85 words across four panels, culminating in one of nature&#8217;s most vexing questions, &#8220;Why are you two ponies?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Remember, this was all when a period when the US was embroiled in the Vietnam War; when Snoopy curses &#8220;this stupid war&#8221; and Charlie Brown writes his pencil pal about how their countries hate each other, the reader of the day was likely to take it as more than just a character moment. (And, of course, when one character reveals their father is over in &#8216;Nam, it becomes more than just unseen context.)<\/li>\n<li>The price of psychiatric help goes up 40%.<\/li>\n<li>Linus attempts suicide in an inefficient (and ultimately unsuccessful, you&#8217;ll be relieved to hear) manner.<\/li>\n<li>Schulz makes a <em>Mission: Impossible<\/em> reference.<\/li>\n<li>On separate occasions, two characters &#8211; Franklin and Lila &#8211; are introduced, then set aside for a few months, then reappear. In Lila&#8217;s case, it was just a throw-away mention at first, leaving you to wonder whether Schulz was planning to use her all along, or whether that reference just festered in the back of his mind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The book is slated to ship April 30&#8230; at which point. the additional 5% discount for preordering disappears. So\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1560978260\">order now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from Texas, where (in addition to a fun signing) I had time to read through the latest Complete Peanuts volume. There is a lot of interesting stuff there, of course. Such as: Which member of the cast is on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency? Which kid&#8217;s &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":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}