{"id":380,"date":"2006-02-06T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2006-02-06T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T13:30:00","slug":"and-speaking-of-mediated-childhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/02\/06\/and-speaking-of-mediated-childhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"And speaking of mediated childhoods&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I just saw this incredible news over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halfchangedworld.com\/2006\/02\/turn_on_the_pow.html\">Half Changed World<\/a>.  Starting tomorrow, you can pre-order on Amazon.com one of my all-time fave childhood television shows:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesameworkshop.org\/tec\/index.php\">The Electric Company<\/a>!!  I used to watch this every. single. day. when I was a kid, and I&#8217;ve often wondered what became of it.  It was like Sesame Street, which I also loved, but with an edge.  <\/p>\n<p>This is something we simply *must* acquire, and it will be a nice addition to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.school-house-rock.com\/\">Schoolhouse Rocks <\/a>collection on VHS.  Now I just need to get some of the old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albany.net\/~genxtv\/krofft.html\">Sid and Marty Krofft <\/a>episodes (<em>Land of the Lost<\/em> was my favourite, but I liked <em>HR Pufnstuf<\/em> too), and pick up some of the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074028\/\">Muppet Show <\/a>series, and my kids will never have to watch commercial TV again!<\/p>\n<p>(Is it me, or is it suddenly 1976 in here?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I just saw this incredible news over at Half Changed World. Starting tomorrow, you can pre-order on Amazon.com one of my all-time fave childhood television shows: The Electric Company!! I used to watch this every. single. day. when I was a kid, and I&#8217;ve often wondered what became of it. It was like Sesame &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/02\/06\/and-speaking-of-mediated-childhoods\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And speaking of mediated childhoods&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}