{"id":198,"date":"2007-10-31T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T11:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2007-10-31T06:09:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T11:09:11","slug":"youre-not-elected-charlie-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/youre-not-elected-charlie-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Not Elected, Charlie Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I caught <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/You're_Not_Elected,_Charlie_Brown\">You&#8217;re Not Elected, Charlie Brown<\/a> in which Linus wins the student body election despite his adherence to a controversial faith (Great Pumpkinism) only to find that he really doesn&#8217;t have any power. Charles M. Schultz, of course, using Peanuts to illustrate that America is actually controlled by a cabal of Reptiloid Illuminated Jesuit Scientologist or something. Or not, whatever, ol&#8217; Chuck was an oddball.<\/p>\n<p>I bring it up only to make two points:<\/p>\n<p>1) When Linus was at the radio station talking to potential voters, a caller opens with &#8220;First time caller, long time listener,&#8221; which surprised me since I thought that phrase was a more recent creation.<\/p>\n<p>2) Also, the show was on ABC. I miss <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=NS27nnGxJqI\">this<\/a>. That used to trigger a  Pavlovian response in me as a tot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I caught You&#8217;re Not Elected, Charlie Brown in which Linus wins the student body election despite his adherence to a controversial faith (Great Pumpkinism) only to find that he really doesn&#8217;t have any power. Charles M. Schultz, of course, using Peanuts to illustrate that America is actually controlled by a cabal of Reptiloid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumb-thoughts","category-gregs-reference","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-3c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}