{"id":654,"date":"2006-09-26T06:14:14","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T11:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=654"},"modified":"2006-09-26T06:21:31","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T11:21:31","slug":"something-made-you-special-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Something Made You Special, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Viscer has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philvischer.com\/index.php\/?p=57\">a post up at his blog that explains pretty much everything about the NBC debacle<\/a>.  I was wrong about several key facts, so you need to read his account if you want to know the real story. It is both better and worse than I expected.  Better, because the cutting wasn&#8217;t something the show&#8217;s creators agreed to.  They no longer own the rights to Veggie Tales, and had no say in the matter.  It&#8217;s nice to know that Vischer isn&#8217;t gutting his show for a buck. <\/p>\n<p>But the news is bad for all the same reasons.  Veggie Tales is owned by a secular company who does not value the central message and who is willing to re-shape the thing to make it profitable.  &#8220;God made you special and he loves you very much&#8221; has been replaced with &#8220;thanks for coming to my house.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have much to add to my <a href=\"?p=649\">previous comments<\/a>, except to say that this is a rotten way for things to have turned out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Viscer has a post up at his blog that explains pretty much everything about the NBC debacle. I was wrong about several key facts, so you need to read his account if you want to know the real story. It is both better and worse than I expected. Better, because the cutting wasn&#8217;t something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}