{"id":7441,"date":"2025-03-06T09:29:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:29:49","slug":"under-the-influence-of-the-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/under-the-influence-of-the-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the influence of The Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked about this a bit earlier on this blog, but now I&#8217;ve gone and made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d4oPxhSOSdk\">whole video<\/a> about the odd tranformation that the World War II cartoon panel &#8220;The Wolf&#8221;, aimed at American GIs, slowly evolved into a daily comic strip about a quirky bunch of neighborhood kids and a dog&#8230; and that the manner in which that transition took place seems likely to have been a key influence in &#8220;Peanuts&#8221; taking the form that we know it in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d4oPxhSOSdk\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d4oPxhSOSdk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(The book I published of\u00a0<em>The Wolf<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1949996557\/?tag=aaugh-20\">still available<\/a>, of course!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked about this a bit earlier on this blog, but now I&#8217;ve gone and made a whole video about the odd tranformation that the World War II cartoon panel &#8220;The Wolf&#8221;, aimed at American GIs, slowly evolved into a daily comic strip about a quirky bunch of neighborhood kids &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7442,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nat-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441","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=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}