{"id":6604,"date":"2021-10-27T12:34:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T19:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2021-10-27T12:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T19:34:46","slug":"an-anniversary-with-an-asterisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/an-anniversary-with-an-asterisk\/","title":{"rendered":"An anniversary with an asterisk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks are celebrating today as the 55th anniversary of the premiere of\u00a0<em>It&#8217;s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown<\/em>. Which, well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember how I told you that <a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/the-first-thanksgiving\/\">Canadians got to see\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving<\/em> before<\/a> those of us who live in the United States did? Oh, sure you do. They used &#8220;Canadian Thanksgiving&#8221; as an excuse.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out they got <em>Great Pumpkin<\/em> a day ahead of the US!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Edmonton_Journal_Fri__Oct_14__1966_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6606\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Edmonton_Journal_Fri__Oct_14__1966_-300x106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Edmonton_Journal_Fri__Oct_14__1966_-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Edmonton_Journal_Fri__Oct_14__1966_-1024x362.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Edmonton_Journal_Fri__Oct_14__1966_-768x272.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Edmonton_Journal_Fri__Oct_14__1966_-1536x543.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Edmonton_Journal_Fri__Oct_14__1966_-2048x725.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What are you gonna tell me, &#8220;Canadian Halloween&#8221;? Or is it just that CBC comes before CBS in the alphabet??<\/p>\n<p>Or is it that Canadians are secretly trying to undermine us at every turn? I hear they&#8217;ve even infiltrated our National Hockey League now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks are celebrating today as the 55th anniversary of the premiere of\u00a0It&#8217;s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Which, well&#8230; Do you remember how I told you that Canadians got to see\u00a0A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving before those of us who live in the United States did? Oh, sure you do. They &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6605,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animated-peanuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604","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=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}