{"id":4109,"date":"2015-11-29T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2015-11-29T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T16:38:11","slug":"charlie-brown-christmas-50th-anniversary-special-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/charlie-brown-christmas-50th-anniversary-special-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Brown Christmas 50th Anniversary Special tomorrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night, starting off ABC&#8217;s prime-time lineup in the US will be an hourlong special devoted to one of the greatest half hours in the history of television!\u00a0<strong>It&#8217;s Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown<\/strong> will be airing in this, the 51st year of airing\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> (because that&#8217;s how anniversaries work!) Hosted by Kristen &#8220;Yes, I have her picture on a t-shirt, why do you ask?&#8221; Bell (known for her talents on screen in\u00a0<em>Veronica Mars<\/em> and behind the microphone in\u00a0<em>Frozen<\/em>), it will have musical performances by Kristin Chenowith (who won a Tony for playing Sally in\u00a0<em>You&#8217;re a Good Man, Charlie Brown<\/em>, and provided the voice of Fifi in\u00a0<em>The Peanuts Movie<\/em>) and Pentatonix (who make fine music but always seem to forget their instruments), it&#8217;ll have celebrities, it will have&#8230; oh, stuff, it&#8217;ll have stuff, I&#8217;m sure. There really shoulda been a new book about the special this year (I should&#8217;ve hustled better in setting that up), or at least a new book adapting the special this year (oh, wait, there are four or five), but I&#8217;m looking forward to this show.<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, this is not the first time Kristen and Kristin have been involved in the same project; Mses Bell and Chenowith did a fun movie together,\u00a0<em>Hit and Run<\/em>. It may be a little salacious at time for some of my audience, but it&#8217;s very human in ways.)<\/p>\n<p>Following the showing of the special will be a showing of\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> (what a happy coincidence!) which will be padded out to an hour by the repeat airing of a\u00a0<em>Prep &amp; Landing: Operation Secret Santa<\/em>, celebrating its fifth anniversary. That puts those cartoons pretty late in the evening for kids on a school night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night, starting off ABC&#8217;s prime-time lineup in the US will be an hourlong special devoted to one of the greatest half hours in the history of television!\u00a0It&#8217;s Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown will be airing in this, the 51st year of airing\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas (because that&#8217;s how anniversaries &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-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animated-peanuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","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=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}