{"id":6578,"date":"2021-09-23T09:07:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T16:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2021-09-23T09:07:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T16:07:31","slug":"happiness-should-be-shared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2021\/09\/happiness-should-be-shared\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness should be shared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a never-reprinted Peanuts strip we somehow left out of <em>The Complete Peanuts<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/The_Atlanta_Constitution_Thu__Jun_4__1959_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6579\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/The_Atlanta_Constitution_Thu__Jun_4__1959_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/The_Atlanta_Constitution_Thu__Jun_4__1959_.jpg 400w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/The_Atlanta_Constitution_Thu__Jun_4__1959_-147x300.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That Schulz, what a genius!<\/p>\n<p>(The invocation of capitalized &#8220;Happiness&#8221; in a 1959 ad, well before &#8220;Happiness is a warm puppy&#8221; was said in the strip and thus linked Peanuts to the happiness theme, may seem surprising, but the line used, &#8220;Happiness should be shared&#8221;, is actually a quote from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/peanuts\/1956\/05\/11\">a 1956 strip<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/guide\/avonincolor.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of a half linus figure holding a Snoopy dispensing tube.\" width=\"150\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The use of drawn images of Peanuts merch in telling the story does remind me of\u00a0<em>The Colorful Story of Avon Toys<\/em>, a 1970s giveaway meant to promote licensed shampoo bottles and the like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a never-reprinted Peanuts strip we somehow left out of The Complete Peanuts! That Schulz, what a genius! (The invocation of capitalized &#8220;Happiness&#8221; in a 1959 ad, well before &#8220;Happiness is a warm puppy&#8221; was said in the strip and thus linked Peanuts to the happiness theme, may seem &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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578","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=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}