{"id":1211,"date":"2015-12-09T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/happy-birthday-charlie-brown.html"},"modified":"2015-12-09T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:27:00","slug":"happy-birthday-charlie-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/happy-birthday-charlie-brown.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Charlie Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It was on this very night, at this very time 50 years ago, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/arts\/charlie-brown-christmas-50-years-1.3339039\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a legend<\/a> was released for the American viewing audience. \u00a0A legend that maintains its freshness and quality all these years later, \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/from-citizen-kane-of-christmas-specials.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">I already wrote my thoughts on this some time ago<\/a>. \u00a0It\u2019s enough to say that, after all these years, it still remains fresh. \u00a0Perhaps that\u2019s because it was out of its own time even when it was released. \u00a0I don\u2019t know. \u00a0It was simply one of those lightening in a bottle moments that likely couldn\u2019t be (and wasn\u2019t) repeated any time soon. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was on this very night, at this very time 50 years ago, that a legend was released for the American viewing audience. \u00a0A legend that maintains its freshness and quality all these years later, \u00a0 I already wrote my thoughts on this some time ago. \u00a0It\u2019s enough to say that, after all these years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Birthday Charlie Brown<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It was on this very night, at this very time 50 years ago, that a legend was released for the American viewing audience. &nbsp;A legend that maintains its\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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