{"id":894,"date":"2003-02-13T21:41:38","date_gmt":"2003-02-14T05:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/02\/13\/894.html"},"modified":"2003-02-13T21:41:38","modified_gmt":"2003-02-14T05:41:38","slug":"formative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/02\/13\/formative\/","title":{"rendered":"Formative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Everyone else my age remembers Schoolhouse Rock.  But when I was a kid, we weren't allowed to watch anything but PBS (and we later got rid of the TV entirely), so what I remember is Sesame Street, Zoom (\"oh, two one, three four!\"), and <a href=\"http:\/\/mywebpages.comcast.net\/davechad\/ec.html\">The Electric Company<\/a>.  I had forgotten almost all about this show, but something on a mailing list today inadvertantly sparked some memories, and I did some poking around on the web 'til I came up with that page.  I don't remember all the items mentioned, but a fair number of them.  The Short Circus!  Fargo North, Decoder!  And, most especially for impressioning impressionable young Jeds: Letterman! (\"Faster than a rolling O!  More powerful than silent E! Able to leap capital T in a single bound! It's a word!  It's a plan!  It's Letterman!\")<\/p>\n<p>And I had absolutely no idea 'til now that Morgan Freeman played Easy Reader.  My only clear memory of that character was a picture book that had a little picture of him on one corner of the cover, with the words \"Easy Reader says: This book is <em>easy<\/em> to <em>read!<\/em>\"<\/p>\n<p>(I did enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolhouserock.com\/\">Schoolhouse Rock<\/a> when I finally saw it a few years back, btw, especially \"Rufus Xavier Sarsasparilla.\")<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone else my age remembers Schoolhouse Rock. But when I was a kid, we weren&#8217;t allowed to watch anything but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}