{"id":5254,"date":"2018-10-10T14:07:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T21:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5254"},"modified":"2018-10-10T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T21:08:11","slug":"its-the-peak-of-the-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/its-the-peak-of-the-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s the Peak of the Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is my favorite time of the Christmas season, which long time readers will know means just one thing: the arrival of a new book adaptation of\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>! Or… is it an adaptation.<\/p>\n

The publication in question is a new boxed set, called the\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas Wooden Collectible Set<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Inside this box are a collection of little flat wooden pieces with images of Peanuts characters or relevant trees, a two-side backdrop for staging dioramas, and… a book!<\/p>\n

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The book is titled\u00a0Peanuts: A Charlie Brown Christmas: A Collection of Favorite Moments<\/strong>. So it’s a collection of “moments”, of quotes from the show and pictures from… well, not actually from the show, but from the frequently-used Tom Brannon artwork adapting the show.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, this is certainly adapted\u00a0from<\/em> the TV special\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>, but does it count as an adaptation\u00a0of<\/em> that special. Well, in my job as The Nation’s Official A Charlie Brown Christmas Adaptation Identification Laureate Emeritus, I face it with some questions: are the art and quotes in the order in which they appear in the show? Approximately yes. If you read it in the order presented, does it make up a story? Yes, a rough one, but it is followable. Is that story a version of a story found in the TV special? Yup. So my official judgment is that this is indeed an adaptation of the special.<\/p>\n

Which is a joy and a burden, because now I have to go update my online\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> database<\/a>. This may take me a day or so, folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is my favorite time of the Christmas season, which long time readers will know means just one thing: the arrival of a new book adaptation of\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas! Or… is it an adaptation. The publication in question is a new boxed set, called the\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas Wooden … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5256,"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":[4,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animated-peanuts","category-new-releases","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254","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=5254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}