{"id":931,"date":"2015-12-09T09:29:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T05:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2015-12-09T09:32:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T05:32:01","slug":"still-dancin-at-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"Still dancin&#8217; at 50!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Charlie-brown-christmas3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-932\" alt=\"Charlie-brown-christmas3\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Charlie-brown-christmas3-300x220.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Charlie-brown-christmas3-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Charlie-brown-christmas3-409x300.jpg 409w, https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Charlie-brown-christmas3.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was 50 years ago this evening that audiences were first treated to an instant classic:\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>. No TV special is more synonymous with any holiday than the <em>Peanuts<\/em> gang and its jazzy romp through the ups and downs of the Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> when I was a kid, I enjoyed it as a young adult, and I enjoy it now watching with a kid of my own. That&#8217;s the beauty of\u00a0<em>Peanuts<\/em>, actually:\u00a0it works for kids and grownups alike. Ditto Christmas, ditto joy and sadness, ditto the music of Vince Guaraldi. Ever think about that one? Why does Vince Guaraldi&#8217;s music sound so perfect on the early Charlie Brown specials? As other reviewers have noted, it does exactly what\u00a0<em>Peanuts<\/em> does: shows a childlike playfulness and an adult sophistication at the same time. (Damn I wish I&#8217;d come up with that!)<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Brown, you look as good in 2015 as ever.<\/p>\n<p>And as your friends tell you every year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 50 years ago this evening that audiences were first treated to an instant classic:\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas. No TV special is more synonymous with any holiday than the Peanuts gang and its jazzy romp through the ups and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=931\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}