{"id":134959,"date":"2017-10-06T15:08:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T21:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134959"},"modified":"2017-10-07T14:25:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T20:25:46","slug":"day-big-bird-defied-gods-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/06\/day-big-bird-defied-gods-egypt.html","title":{"rendered":"The Day Big Bird Defied the Gods of Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Bird reading the riot act to Osiris? Holy Children’s Television Workshop, this is an episode of Sesame Street<\/i> I’m sorry I missed.<\/p>\n

(Actually, it turns out it’s online<\/a>\u00a0… queuing that up for a later watch, though it’s possible the reality won’t quite live up to the write-up for entertainment value.)<\/p>\n


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\n<\/a>
\nAgainst Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain<\/a><\/span>
\nI was a hard-core Sesame Street viewer from about 1979 to 1984, and my memories of the show are the sort of deep nostalgic tangle you’d expect, with a great deal of idiosyncratic noise blended into the signal. So, for many years, I carried around a vague but emotionally vivid recollection of a\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big Bird reading the riot act to Osiris? Holy Children’s Television Workshop, this is an episode of Sesame Street I’m sorry I missed. (Actually, it turns out it’s online\u00a0… queuing that up for a later watch, though it’s possible the reality won’t quite live up to the write-up for entertainment value.) 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