{"id":5236,"date":"2018-09-19T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T00:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2018-09-19T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T00:55:21","slug":"review-snoopys-christmas-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/review-snoopys-christmas-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Snoopy&#8217;s Christmas Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SnoopysChristmasSurprise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5049\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SnoopysChristmasSurprise-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SnoopysChristmasSurprise-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SnoopysChristmasSurprise-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SnoopysChristmasSurprise-1019x1024.jpg 1019w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The just-released kids storybook, <strong><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_5853233\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Snoopys-Christmas-Surprise-Peanuts-Cooper\/dp\/1534421815\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=cd8f3a7e699842701936d35a6016de13&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"Snoopy's Christmas Surprise\" data-amzn-link-id=\"cd8f3a7e699842701936d35a6016de13\">Snoopy&#8217;s Christmas Surprise<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_5853233\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=cd8f3a7e699842701936d35a6016de13&amp;_cb=1537404885684\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong>, is one of the lesser of writer Jason Cooper&#8217;s efforts on the characters, at least for my tastes (but admittedly, this book is not aimed at those of us in the double-digits of years, which I most definitely am.) The story &#8211; Snoopy is missing Spike, who cannot afford to come visit for Christmas, so the kids try to cheer him up &#8211; doesn&#8217;t feel particularly Peanutsy. It&#8217;s a basic, ultimately-feel-good story that could be told with any characters, with some Peanuts character aspects layered on, but blandly.<\/p>\n<p>But the sticker page in the back? Ahhh, that&#8217;s very Peanutsy! Snoopy sleeping on his back on a Christmas tree! Santa Snoopy! A joyous Santa Charlie Brown! Peppermint Patty sledding down a hill with a scared Marcie on the sled behind her! A Christmas tree cactus! The sticker page is joyous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The just-released kids storybook, Snoopy&#8217;s Christmas Surprise, is one of the lesser of writer Jason Cooper&#8217;s efforts on the characters, at least for my tastes (but admittedly, this book is not aimed at those of us in the double-digits of years, which I most definitely am.) The story &#8211; Snoopy &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":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5236","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\/5236","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=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}