{"id":386,"date":"2005-11-14T11:59:02","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T11:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2005-11-14T11:59:02","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T11:59:02","slug":"franklin_who_the_heck_is_frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/11\/14\/franklin_who_the_heck_is_frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin? Who the Heck Is Franklin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved the <i>Peanuts<\/i> comic strip when I was a kid. I had &#8212; still have, somewhere in the depths of the Bennion Archives &#8212; a dozen or so paperback compilations that I carried around in my back pocket all through my elementary-school years. I practically had those books memorized, I flipped through them so frequently. I identified with Charlie Brown&#8217;s insecurity and I thought the World War I flying ace was the coolest. But as I moved into middle school, I came to realize that I didn&#8217;t think the strip was very funny. It was gentle and wise, as its fans so often claim. It was also stodgy and old-fashioned, sometimes preachy, occasionally heartwarming or cute, but it was never funny. I can&#8217;t recall ever laughing out loud at a <i>Peanuts<\/i> strip the way I did over <i>Bloom County<\/i> or <i>Calvin and Hobbes<\/i> or even the early, pre-sell-out <i>Garfield<\/i>, and I honestly can&#8217;t remember the last time I actually read a <i>Peanuts<\/i> strip.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I do have a soft spot for the characters of Charles Schulz &#8212; they were very important to me when I was very young and memories of them linger in my heart, like kindergarten friends you haven&#8217;t seen in decades &#8212; so I couldn&#8217;t resist taking the latest personality quiz that&#8217;s circulating through the blogosphere, the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2jb2q\">Which Peanuts Character Are You?<\/a> test. Here is my result:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Franklin\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quizilla.com\/A\/anonymousnowhere\/1064197208_r_franklin.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nYou are Franklin!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quizilla.com\/users\/anonymousnowhere\/quizzes\/Which%20Peanuts%20Character%20are%20You%3F\/\"> Which Peanuts Character are You?<\/a><br \/>\n<span>brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/quizilla.com\">Quizilla<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I guess this is an accurate enough description of me. Funny thing, though: I don&#8217;t remember this character. Not even a little. I find that odd and more than a little disturbing, considering how obsessive I used to be about this strip. Who is this guy? And what does it say about me that my Schulzian personality match is so forgettable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved the Peanuts comic strip when I was a kid. I had &#8212; still have, somewhere in the depths of the Bennion Archives &#8212; a dozen or so paperback compilations that I carried around in my back pocket all through my elementary-school years. I practically had those books memorized, I flipped through them so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes-and-quizzes","category-pop-culture-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}