{"id":7640,"date":"2025-10-11T13:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=7640"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:19:36","slug":"a-charlie-brown-christmas-yet-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/a-charlie-brown-christmas-yet-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"A Charlie Brown Christmas yet to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Hallmark will be offering a new book edition of\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> yet again this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hallmark.com\/stuffed-animals\/interactive-stuffed-animals\/peanuts-snoopy-interactive-plush-and-book-with-sound-1XKT6124.html\"><strong>A Charlie Brown Christmas: An Interactive Story Experience<\/strong><\/a> comes bundled with &#8220;a plush Snoopy that shivers, hums and laughs along with the story&#8221;&#8230; apparently, there is communication between the book and the stuffed animal, so when you push the sound buttons, Snoopy reacts. And this bit of tech will set you back&#8230; $62.99. It&#8217;s like the execs sat around and said &#8220;if we put out a book and a stuffed figure and charged a lot of money for it, would anyone actually spend that much on it?&#8221; and the wisest of the execs said &#8220;yes, Nat would&#8221;, so they did.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Interactive-Snoopy-Plush-and-Sound-Button-Book_1XKT6124_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7641\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Interactive-Snoopy-Plush-and-Sound-Button-Book_1XKT6124_01-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Interactive-Snoopy-Plush-and-Sound-Button-Book_1XKT6124_01-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Interactive-Snoopy-Plush-and-Sound-Button-Book_1XKT6124_01-768x606.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Interactive-Snoopy-Plush-and-Sound-Button-Book_1XKT6124_01.jpg 776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this a new adaptation, or just a reworking of an existing one. Going by the cover art, I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s a bit of both, as this is the cover that ran on <a href=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/guide\/cbc2021b.html\">Hallmark&#8217;s upscale 2021 edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2021bclarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7642\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2021bclarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2021bclarge.jpg 500w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2021bclarge-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So they&#8217;re not reinventing the wheel in terms of design, but it&#8217;s no just slamming on the old art either. Anyway, we shall see, because yes, of course I&#8217;ll be getting this once it&#8217;s released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Hallmark will be offering a new book edition of\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas yet again this year. A Charlie Brown Christmas: An Interactive Story Experience comes bundled with &#8220;a plush Snoopy that shivers, hums and laughs along with the story&#8221;&#8230; apparently, there is communication between the book and the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7643,"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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-adaptations-of-a-charlie-brown-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640","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=7640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}