{"id":958,"date":"2010-07-19T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/one-of-my-earliest-tv-memories.html"},"modified":"2010-07-19T21:21:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T21:21:07","slug":"one-of-my-earliest-tv-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/one-of-my-earliest-tv-memories.html","title":{"rendered":"One of my earliest TV memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was three and a half years old when this aired. 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