{"id":3819,"date":"2004-01-23T14:16:13","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T14:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2004-01-23T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2004-01-23T14:16:13","slug":"a_moment_of_sil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3819","title":{"rendered":"A Moment of Silence for Captain Kangaroo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TV’s ‘Captain Kangaroo,’ Bob Keeshan, dead<\/a><\/h3>\n

(CNN) — Television’s Captain Kangaroo, Bob Keeshan, died Friday morning in Vermont, a family friend told CNN. <\/p>\n

“Captain Kangaroo,” a children’s show, featured the walrus-mustached, bowl-haircut Keeshan entertaining youngsters with his gentle, whimsical humor. Among the show’s other characters were Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and Mr. Green Jeans (Hugh Brannum).<\/p>\n

The show ran on CBS from 1955 to 1985, and then moved to public television for six more years.<\/p>\n

Shows were frequently interrupted with silliness, such as hundreds of ping-pong balls dropping from the ceiling or Mr. Moose’s knock-knock jokes, but the mainstay was Keeshan, who chatted with Brannum and told stories. [CNN.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I remember those ping pong balls. As a little kid, Captain Kangaroo was one of the shows my mom would let me watch. I can still remember all kinds of things about it now. I find it kind of amazing that I can still remember the other shows I watched around then. Shows like Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and Electric Company (which was still my favorite). I think I’ll take some time today to get in touch with my inner child. Maybe I can find a bunch of ping pong balls to dump on someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TV’s ‘Captain Kangaroo,’ Bob Keeshan, dead (CNN) — Television’s Captain Kangaroo, Bob Keeshan, died Friday morning in Vermont, a family friend told CNN. “Captain Kangaroo,” a children’s show, featured the walrus-mustached, bowl-haircut Keeshan entertaining youngsters with his gentle, whimsical humor. Among the show’s other characters were Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and Mr. Green Jeans (Hugh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}