{"id":25651,"date":"2020-02-07T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25651"},"modified":"2020-02-07T09:56:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:56:38","slug":"know-your-frenches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/07\/know-your-frenches\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Frenches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kids who grew up on syndicated television in the 1970s, before cable television, might have trouble with this, although they might not even know it: Confusing their Frenches.<\/p>\n

Mr. French<\/em> was a character on the television show Family Affair<\/em> played by Sebastian Cabot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Victor French<\/em><\/a> was an actor who appeared most notably (for syndicated television viewers) in Little House on the Prairie<\/em> and Highway to Heaven<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’m throwing Merlin Olsen<\/em><\/a> into the mix here because he also had facial hair and because he appeared in Little House on the Prairie<\/em> as a replacement character when Victor French left the show. Also, he appeared in a Highway to Heaven<\/em> episode and said to Victor<\/em> French “All I could see was the flowers and the beard. I thought you were Merlin Olsen.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/table>\n

I am sure this field guide has absolutely no meaning in the second decade of the twenty-first century, where I’m the only one thinking of these particular television programs, none of which I particularly liked but watched we only had five channels and because Sid Meier’s Civilization was still decades away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kids who grew up on syndicated television in the 1970s, before cable television, might have trouble with this, although they might not even know it: Confusing their Frenches. Mr. French was a character on the television show Family Affair played by Sebastian Cabot. Victor French was an actor who appeared most notably (for syndicated television […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25656,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25651\/revisions\/25656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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Mr. French<\/center><\/td>\n
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Merlin Olsen<\/center><\/td>\n