{"id":5390,"date":"2018-12-07T12:34:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5390"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:44:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:44:54","slug":"peanuts-and-american-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/peanuts-and-american-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanuts and American Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming next May is the book <strong><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_1093344\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Peanuts-American-Culture-Charles-Schulzs\/dp\/1476671443\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=c0351786bcab84cc47504d36ff188822&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"Peanuts and American Culture\" data-amzn-link-id=\"c0351786bcab84cc47504d36ff188822\">Peanuts and American Culture<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_1093344\" 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=c0351786bcab84cc47504d36ff188822&amp;_cb=1544132144036\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong>,.Looking at Peanuts\u00a0 in the context of it&#8217;s &#8220;Cold War roots, this collection of new essays explores existentialism, the reshaping of the nuclear family, the Civil Rights Movement, 1960s counterculture, feminism, psychiatry and fear of the bomb. Chapters focus on the development of Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Schroeder, Franklin, Shermy, Snoopy and the other characters that became American icons.&#8221; This comes from\u00a0McFarland &amp; Company, so not a university press like some of the books we&#8217;ve seen of late, but rather a company that does a broad array of books analyzing pop culture. The editor, listed variously as Peter Y. W. Lee and Peter W. Lee, appears to have previously headed up similar books about <em>Star Trek<\/em> and <em>Star Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming next May is the book Peanuts and American Culture,.Looking at Peanuts\u00a0 in the context of it&#8217;s &#8220;Cold War roots, this collection of new essays explores existentialism, the reshaping of the nuclear family, the Civil Rights Movement, 1960s counterculture, feminism, psychiatry and fear of the bomb. Chapters focus on the &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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390","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=5390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}