{"id":40705,"date":"2013-12-24T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40705"},"modified":"2013-12-22T12:55:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T18:55:01","slug":"this-warmed-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40705","title":{"rendered":"This Warmed My Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>, the 1965 animated classic which has been on the TV every Christmas season for 48 years now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.showbiz411.com\/2013\/12\/20\/simon-cowell-x-factor-season-finale-beaten-by-charlie-brown-xmas-re-run\">beat the finale of\u00a0The X Factor<\/a>\u00a0in the rush ratings last week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Simon Cowell\u2019s \u201cX Factor\u201d came to an ignominious end on Thursday night. The battered series not only finished third in its time slot, it drew fewer viewers than a rerun of \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas\u201d first aired on CBS in 1965. It\u2019s been on TV every year since then. Last night the ABC special pulled 6.41 million total viewers vs. \u201cX Factor\u201d with 6.22 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All hope is not lost.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GPG3zSgm_Qo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not\u00a0<em>the\u00a0<\/em>best Christmas present ever, but I&#8217;m not selling it short either&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Charlie Brown Christmas, the 1965 animated classic which has been on the TV every Christmas season for 48 years now, beat the finale of\u00a0The X Factor\u00a0in the rush ratings last week: Simon Cowell\u2019s \u201cX Factor\u201d came to an ignominious end on Thursday night. The battered series not only finished third in its time slot, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40707,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40705\/revisions\/40707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}