{"id":5966,"date":"2020-05-04T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5966"},"modified":"2020-05-04T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:05:03","slug":"folks-have-always-gotten-peanuts-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/folks-have-always-gotten-peanuts-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Folks have always gotten Peanuts wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Occasionally, I flinch hard at some error I see in writing about Peanuts. It’s always tempting to think “people have gotten real sloppy about such things.” Well, I was just doing some research about Happiness is a Warm Puppy, and I ran into this piece of writing from an issue of\u00a0The Lutheran<\/em>, from about when the book was released in 1962:<\/p>\n

Some children were asked to define happiness. Carl Schulz, the originator of the cartoon “Peanuts,” gathered together a series of their definitions. Here are a few: “Happiness is a warm puppy.” “Happiness is a thumb and a blanket.” […]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, there was<\/em> a Carl Schulz, that was Charles Schulz’s dad. But he didn’t write the book. And no, that’s not how the book was written. Two sentences, two major errors in fact.<\/p>\n

But things still get confused, even today. For example, I’m looking at the Amazon listing for Peanuts Sonntagsseiten 2: Snoopy und seine Freunde: 1971 – 1980<\/a><\/strong>\"\", a German collection of Sunday strips. And, as with many books, Amazon has images of the book and from inside the book that you can view.<\/p>\n

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So the images are the front cover, and what looks like the title page, and… hey, what’s that duplicated image?<\/p>\n

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A little detective work tells me that that’s Matthias Wieland, freelance comics translator and editor. So yeah, I can understand him having a credit somewhere in the book… but I can’t say that having multiple photos of what he looks like (well, the same photo twice) really tells me much about the book itself!<\/p>\n

Ah, the imperfections of life…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Occasionally, I flinch hard at some error I see in writing about Peanuts. It’s always tempting to think “people have gotten real sloppy about such things.” Well, I was just doing some research about Happiness is a Warm Puppy, and I ran into this piece of writing from an issue … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5969,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966","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=5966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}