{"id":471,"date":"2011-02-05T01:31:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2011\/02\/05\/move-over-thomas-here-comes-chuggington\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T01:31:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:31:44","slug":"move-over-thomas-here-comes-chuggington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2011\/move-over-thomas-here-comes-chuggington\/","title":{"rendered":"Move Over Thomas! Here Comes Chuggington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'Chuggington.jpg','1716','2473');return false\" onfocus=\"this.blur()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chuggington.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"173\" height=\"250\" title=\"Chuggington.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Chuggington.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-content\/uploads\/.thumbs\/.Chuggington.jpg\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>Thomas &#038; Friends has garnered the &#8220;train&#8221; genre of the preschool media market for ever since it was first\u00a0broadcast in 1984. But now, we&#8217;ve got a new series, Chuggington, which offers a bit more upbeat pace, fun &#038; bright colors, and easy to understand messaging. Many of our jurors have switched their focus to the &#8220;new kid on the block&#8221; which they feel is more suitable for 21st century kids.<\/p>\n<p>This first DVD of the TV series offers 6 episodes: Braking Brewster, Clunky Wilson, Can&#8217;t Catch Koko, Old Puffer Pete&#8217;s Tour, Koko on Call and Hodge and the Magnet. I encourage you to try it, if you haven&#8217;t seen it yet. In particular, we found that girls preferred it over Thomas. But really, girls or boys, I think you won&#8217;t be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas &#038; Friends has garnered the &#8220;train&#8221; genre of the preschool media market for ever since it was first\u00a0broadcast in 1984. But now, we&#8217;ve got a new series, Chuggington, which offers a bit more upbeat pace, fun &#038; bright colors, and easy to understand messaging. Many of our jurors have switched their focus to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-7B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}