{"id":268,"date":"2010-02-21T19:38:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T19:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2010-02-21T19:38:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T19:38:54","slug":"woodentops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Woodentops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>total bonus &#8211; an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mawTu39AGMo\" target=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mawTu39AGMo\" rel=\"noopener\">The Woodentops<\/a> on FaceTube!<\/p>\n<p>I thought they had all been lost.\u00a0 This was my all time favourite <em>Watch With Mother <\/em>programme when I was wee.\u00a0 Monday Picturebook, Tuesday Andy Pandy , Wednesday Bill &amp; Ben, Thursday Picturebook again and Friday The Woodentops.\u00a0\u00a0 Picture book had the 3 Jolly Jack Tars, and Busy Lizzie, who had a magic daisy on her  dress that gave her three wishes a day.\u00a0\u00a0 (As I recall she went on to have her own show).\u00a0 It also featured Sausage the dachshund, who wore a  different coat every week, and could speak a bit.\u00a0 So you see, Pixar, it&#8217;s been  done before!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, have a look at this clip, and if you can keep a  straight face when Spotty Dog, my first love, the hero of the hour and a pivotal  influence on my pre-school awareness, starts singing, then you simply do not deserve  this golden nugget of the early 60s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.banthewasp.com\/my_blo7.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"129\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.banthewasp.com\/my_blo9.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"130\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.banthewasp.com\/my_blo8.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"128\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>total bonus &#8211; an episode of The Woodentops on FaceTube! I thought they had all been lost.\u00a0 This was my all time favourite Watch With Mother programme when I was wee.\u00a0 Monday Picturebook, Tuesday Andy Pandy , Wednesday Bill &amp; Ben, Thursday Picturebook again and Friday The Woodentops.\u00a0\u00a0 Picture book had the 3 Jolly Jack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}