{"id":437,"date":"2008-09-18T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=437"},"modified":"2008-09-18T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T23:14:15","slug":"return-of-the-snow-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/return-of-the-snow-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Snow Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Barnes &amp; Noble had an exclusive book edition of <strong><em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em><\/strong>, reprinting the original adaptation of the TV special, with a &#8220;snow block&#8221; &#8211; basically, a rectangular snow globe. (In fact, that edition is <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/bn.htm?9780760787236\">still available<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This November, they have <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/bn.htm?9781435111240\">another new<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 0; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.barnesandnoble.com\/images\/31020000\/31028678.JPG\" alt=\"Snow Block Charlie Brown Christmas\" width=\"128\" height=\"129\" \/> edition<\/a>, again packaged with a snow block. Possibly the same snow block; all we have is the text description. But the book this time is described as a hardcover with a jacket, which would not properly describe the prior one. And the cover they&#8217;re displaying here has the Schulz drawing from the 1965 adaptation, which was not used as the cover last time. And the price is lower.<\/p>\n<p>You know, some day I will look back on my life and realize that I could&#8217;ve owned an actual new car, but instead I have umpteen book adaptations of <em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>. And perhaps I will smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Barnes &amp; Noble had an exclusive book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas, reprinting the original adaptation of the TV special, with a &#8220;snow block&#8221; &#8211; basically, a rectangular snow globe. (In fact, that edition is still available.) This November, they have another new edition, again packaged with &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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}