{"id":108307,"date":"2003-03-28T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2003-03-28T19:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108307"},"modified":"2015-10-18T11:28:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T15:28:01","slug":"more-on-fred-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108307","title":{"rendered":"More on Fred Rogers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I do think that young children can spot a phony a mile away.&#8221; &#8212; Fred Rogers <\/p>\n<p>And then this anecdote which I love (I have tears in my eyes): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An ordained Presbyterian minister, Rogers&#8217; command of innocence won him thousands of young fans &#8230; And it also made him the butt of parody by adults like comedian Eddie Murphy, who played his own version of Mister Rogers on &#8220;Saturday Night Live.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Rogers knows for a fact that Murphy meant no harm with his humor. In fact, they met once. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He just put his arms around me and said, &#8216;The real Mister Rogers,&#8217; &#8221; says Rogers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2001\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/08\/31\/rogers.finale\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The above is from CNN. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I do think that young children can spot a phony a mile away.&#8221; &#8212; Fred Rogers And then this anecdote which I love (I have tears in my eyes): An ordained Presbyterian minister, Rogers&#8217; command of innocence won him thousands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108307\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108308,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108307\/revisions\/108308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}