{"id":7333,"date":"2024-10-14T17:47:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T00:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=7333"},"modified":"2024-10-14T17:47:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T00:47:53","slug":"an-unauthorized-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2024\/10\/an-unauthorized-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"An unauthorized? biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I&#8217;ve talked about the Charles Schulz biographies that are produced as part of bulk lines of biographies for school libraries, very brief, photo-heavy things meant to give kids something to write book reports about. Well ABDO, a company that has produced just such a biography in the past, has decided to move beyond that and produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Snoopy-Classic-Cartoon-Character-BIOS\/dp\/B0DDNPKJ2Z\/?tag=aaugh-20\">a biography of Snoopy<\/a>. Part of their new <em>Classic Cartoon Character Bios<\/em> line, it drops in December alongside biographies for Mickey Mouse, Garfield, Winnie the Pooh, Scooby Doo, and Pikachu. With a current price of $34 and change apiece for a 24 page book, these are priced for libraries, not humans. What kind of dolt would spend that sort of money on this? &lt;insert sound of the AAUGH Blogger hitting the &#8220;Pre-order Now&#8221; button.&gt;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/SnoopyABDObio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7334\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/SnoopyABDObio-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/SnoopyABDObio-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/SnoopyABDObio-1024x847.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/SnoopyABDObio-768x635.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/SnoopyABDObio.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I&#8217;ve talked about the Charles Schulz biographies that are produced as part of bulk lines of biographies for school libraries, very brief, photo-heavy things meant to give kids something to write book reports about. Well ABDO, a company that has produced just such a biography in the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7334,"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-7333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333","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=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}