Someone please tell me that I’m not the only one who gets verklempt at the line “Mr. Hooper isn’t coming back?”\u00a0 But I was also thrilled that it includes the “New Way to Walk” song with Beyonce’s Destiny Child days was one of my mom’s favorites to watch with my little girl. It’s that mix of funny and touching, the silly and the realistic, that help prepare kids for this wacky, wild world. And its multigenerational appeal never ceases to amaze me.<\/p>\n

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Happy 45th birthday, Sesame Street and the good folks at the Children’s Television Workshop! I am a card-carrying, life-long, die-hard Sesame Street fan. I have loved Sesame Street for as long as I can remember. My brother and I named our very first fish Bert and Ernie. My favorite number growing up was 6, because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6082,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/6082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}