{"id":11186,"date":"2020-12-26T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2021-01-24T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T21:12:03","slug":"my-own-dog-gone-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/26\/my-own-dog-gone-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy own dog, gone commercial!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/charlie-browns-inside-job\/ar-BB1ccIAB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Atlantic via MSN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Charlie Brown\u2019s Inside Job<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Caitlin Flanagan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Things Only Adults Notice In A Charlie Brown Christmas\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nHOqT5EpmCM?start=266&#038;feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For half a century, it\u2019s been one of the most significant phrases in American Christianity. A prelude to something sacred in an unlikely place: the Gospel of Luke, King James translation, as recited by Linus van Pelt in\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My parents were atheists; I knew almost nothing about Christianity as a child, although I got the lay of the land when I was sent to Catholic school in sixth grade. Before that, my parents\u2014especially my mother\u2014actively worked to keep me and my sister free from religion, Christianity in particular. But we had our gods. Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny reigned over us, with great kindness and generosity, and if we came, eventually, to a crisis of faith, we dealt with it privately. My sister and I understood that our feelings about Christmas were very important to our parents. The brief\u2014transmitted in the silent language of the family\u2014was to be happy, because our parents had had terrible childhoods, and instead of working out their pasts in psychoanalysis or \u201cinvolvement,\u201d they threw themselves into these perfect Christmases. It was the most wonderful, extremely tense time of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/charlie-browns-inside-job\/ar-BB1ccIAB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at MSN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Atlantic via MSN Charlie Brown\u2019s Inside Job by Caitlin Flanagan For half a century, it\u2019s been one of the most significant phrases in American Christianity. A prelude to something sacred in an unlikely place: the Gospel of Luke, King James translation, as recited by Linus van Pelt in\u00a0A Charlie Brown Christmas. My parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}