{"id":6388,"date":"2021-04-27T07:16:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6388"},"modified":"2021-04-28T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:43:12","slug":"the-first-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/the-first-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Thanksgiving."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s common knowledge that\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving<\/em> first aired on November 20, 1973. You can find that fact on the show&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068359\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0\">IMDb page<\/a>, or its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Charlie_Brown_Thanksgiving\">Wikipedia page<\/a>&#8230; at least if you check right now, before I get it fixed. You see, like much common knowledge, it appears to be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kurtblumenau\/status\/1387034661575184388\">on the Twitters<\/a>, Kurt B pointed me to this interesting description of the special from a TV listing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/CanadianThanksgivingwhole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6389 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/CanadianThanksgivingwhole.jpg\" alt=\"8:00 (2,6) Peanuts Cartoon Special. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is a celebration of Canadian Thanksgiving and features a holiday feast with the Peanuts clan.\" width=\"400\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/CanadianThanksgivingwhole.jpg 400w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/CanadianThanksgivingwhole-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>He was focusing on the &#8220;Canadian Thanksgiving&#8221; claim; Canadians have their own Thanksgiving holiday, about a month and a half before the US one. (Are the Peanuts characters Canadian? It&#8217;s hard to tell. That&#8217;s one of the tricky things about Canadians, they have the ability to pass for normal people, unless you pay close attention. You have to give them the &#8220;are you a replicant&#8221; interview from <em>Blade Runner<\/em>, only you just count the number of times they say &#8220;sorry&#8221; during their responses.)<\/p>\n<p>Kurt noted that this appeared in the October 5, 1973, Alberni (British Columbia) Valley Times. I am surprised enough by that to go ahead and verify it&#8230; and I find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/clip\/76577617\/charlie-brown-thanksgiving-listings-in-c\/\">that listing<\/a>. It&#8217;s actually not a listing for that day&#8217;s airings, but for the next day, Saturday the 6th, two days before Canadian Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>So the US premiere of A<em> Charlie Brown Thanksgiving<\/em> is only that, the US premiere. Our great special is just Canada&#8217;s leftovers, like some stale popcorn and jelly beans.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s today&#8217;s painful entry in the search for historic truth.<\/p>\n<p><em>(NOTE: My mocking Canadians here is all in fun. They are truly a fine and respectable people &#8211; and I am absolutely not being forced to say this by my brother and the Canadian government agent he married.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s common knowledge that\u00a0A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving first aired on November 20, 1973. You can find that fact on the show&#8217;s IMDb page, or its Wikipedia page&#8230; at least if you check right now, before I get it fixed. You see, like much common knowledge, it appears to be wrong. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6390,"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":[4,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animated-peanuts","category-greatest-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388","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=6388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}