{"id":34908,"date":"2025-11-25T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34908"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:46:33","slug":"live-from-new-york-its-cookie-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34908","title":{"rendered":"Live from New York&#8230; it&#8217;s Cookie Monster!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago, Cookie Monster made an audition tape to be a guest host on <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sesame Street:  Cookie Monster Auditions for Saturday Night Live\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C-PkQRh3QXA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It still hasn&#8217;t happened.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make it happen, world!  Cookie Monster, on <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i>.  The world needs this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago, Cookie Monster made an audition tape to be a guest host on Saturday Night Live. It still hasn&#8217;t happened. Let&#8217;s make it happen, world! Cookie Monster, on Saturday Night Live. The world needs this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[4004,1107,4401],"class_list":["post-34908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-cookie-monster","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-sesame-street","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}