{"id":17461,"date":"2009-09-22T20:54:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T00:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17461"},"modified":"2015-01-06T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T20:08:28","slug":"why-peanuts-reminded-me-of-911-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/22\/why-peanuts-reminded-me-of-911-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Why <i>Peanuts<\/i> reminded me of 9\/11 today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a  <i>Classic Peanuts<\/i> reprint in the paper today that brought back memories of 9\/11. (Actually, I was catching up with Thursday&#8217;s <i>Washington Post<\/i>. See&#8212;I&#8217;m behind on <i>all<\/i> of my reading!) <\/p>\n<p>I know that&#8217;s not what Charles Schultz had on his mind when he drew this particular strip sometime in the &#8217;80s. And yet, the first panel of the pair brought it all back.  <\/p>\n<p>Tell me&#8212;is it just me? If you had seen this without my pointing out the unintended allusion, would your mind also have been sent back to 9\/11?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Peanuts911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Peanuts911-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Peanuts911\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Peanuts911-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Peanuts911.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever be able to come across a mention of towers being knocked over without that horrible day coming back.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the full strip, with its far more innocent punchline, below.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PeanutsFullStrip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PeanutsFullStrip-300x107.jpg\" alt=\"PeanutsFullStrip\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PeanutsFullStrip-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PeanutsFullStrip.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a Classic Peanuts reprint in the paper today that brought back memories of 9\/11. (Actually, I was catching up with Thursday&#8217;s Washington Post. See&#8212;I&#8217;m behind on all of my reading!) I know that&#8217;s not what Charles Schultz had on his mind when he drew this particular strip sometime in the &#8217;80s. And yet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[583,529],"class_list":["post-17461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-peanuts","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17465,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461\/revisions\/17465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}