{"id":4400,"date":"2016-10-23T08:31:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T15:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2016-10-22T08:56:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T15:56:29","slug":"hallmark-celebrates-christmas-the-traditional-way-taking-my-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/hallmark-celebrates-christmas-the-traditional-way-taking-my-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallmark celebrates Christmas the traditional way: taking my money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having already taken my cash for the Christmas cookbook that I announced a few days ago, Hallmark’s\u00a0website announced not one but two more Christmas-themed Peanuts books, designed specifically to drag money out of my pocket and place it\u00a0other places!<\/p>\n

On one hand, we have another one of those Itty-Bittys books, this one equipped with two of the Itty-Bitty stuffed figures (although Hallmark in their product description calls them “stuffed animals”. Charlie Brown gets no respect.) The plot description of\u00a0It’s a Tree-Tumbling Christmas, Charlie Brown<\/strong><\/a> leaves me to believe that, unlike the prior Itty-Bittys Peanuts book, it is not derived from a TV special. It’s a tale of Snoopy having messed up a Christmas tree and its needing to be fixed. That doesn’t sound like it’s based on\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> to me!<\/p>\n

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However, I suspect that the other book newly launched\u00a0is<\/em> based on\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>. That is due to a combination of my careful detective work and to the fact that the book is titled\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas: a Hallmark Lighted Pop-Up Book<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Will you be hearing more from me on this soon? Yes, yes you will.<\/p>\n

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Having already taken my cash for the Christmas cookbook that I announced a few days ago, Hallmark’s\u00a0website announced not one but two more Christmas-themed Peanuts books, designed specifically to drag money out of my pocket and place it\u00a0other places! On one hand, we have another one of those Itty-Bittys books, … <\/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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","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=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}