It was a nice idea, and I do have a voice made for radio (so people have told me over the years), and I made the recording of me, reading the book, and I think it turned out well.<\/p>\n
I have no idea if my niece liked it or not; she was more interested in clothes for her favorite doll. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Then, this morning, I saw this image on Facebook, from a webcomic posted last year<\/a>:<\/p>\n Linus tells the truth<\/b> about Christmas. It’s not the story that Sparky… err, Charles Schulz would have told, true, but it’s still true — there isn’t an original bone in Christianity’s body, and it has rifled through the pockets of religions hither, thither, and yon over the past two millennia. Linus doen’t cover everything I think he should — he should have tied these various pagan festivals to the winter solstice and why that was astronomically auspicious — but he does make a good start, and hopefully Charlie Brown will educate himself in comparative religion. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n And it’s a very<\/i> good thing I didn’t see this before I recorded A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/i> because, yes, you can be absolutely guaranteed that I would have “substituted” this page for the page of the book in which Linus tells the story from the Gospel of St. Luke. I mean, obviously, the words on the page in my niece’s book would have been what Hallmark printed. But the story that came out of the speakers would have been something entirely<\/i> different. Of course, I’m the person who gave my niece a plush Cthulhu when she was one. It was cute and green and all… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n What I especially like about this recaptioned Peanuts<\/i> page is the attention to detail. The recaptioner used a font that replicates Schulz’s handwriting. Too often I’ve seen recaptioned Peanuts<\/i> strips that use Comic Sans. Not only does that look<\/i> wrong because it doesn’t mesh with the artwork, but Comic Sans is a crime against humanity. No, this artist took the time and did it right, and I applaud him for it.<\/p>\n Merry Mithrasmas, Charlie Brown!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My niece turned three on Monday, and on Saturday I went down to Virginia to spend the day with my sister and her family to celebrate my niece’s birthday. For my niece’s birthday, I gave her some Christmas socks and a recordable storybook of A Charlie Brown Christmas that I picked up at Hallmark aContinue reading “On Linus and the Meaning of Christmas”<\/span><\/a><\/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":[61,62,63,64],"class_list":["post-6144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charles-schulz","tag-charlie-brown","tag-christianity","tag-christmas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/draftsauronpac.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/linus-truth.jpg\")
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