{"id":1840,"date":"2014-06-06T13:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T19:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:19:41","slug":"levar-burton-can-literally-do-anything-because-he-read-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2014\/06\/06\/levar-burton-can-literally-do-anything-because-he-read-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Levar Burton can literally do anything because he read a book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/c61f805aa7\/reading-rainbow-s-new-theme-song-with-levar-burton\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1841\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/levar.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"levar\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/06\/levar.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/06\/levar-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/06\/levar-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A new version of the Reading Rainbow theme song, in which Levar Burton goes power-mad.<\/p>\n<p>The end?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/new-reading-rainbow-theme-finally-addresses-the-dangers-1585942826\">Jezebel<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Addendum, same day: I&#8217;ve just noticed that in the video we see &#8220;quotes&#8221; from, it seems, L. Frank Baum&#8217;s <em>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<\/em>, but in fact three of the four quotes are from the MGM film: &#8220;Now I know I have a heart, because it&#8217;s breaking,&#8221; says the Tin Man, but only in the movie; &#8220;I am Oz, the Great and Terrible&#8221; says Oz, only in the movie (though Dorothy does refer to him as a Great and Terrible Humbug in the book); &#8220;Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,&#8221; says the Wizard, but only in the movie. Dorothy does say &#8220;There is no place like home&#8221; in the book, but she says it soon after meeting the Scarecrow, not to get herself home with ruby slippers (in the book, the slippers are silver, anyway), and she doesn&#8217;t use the contraction. If you don&#8217;t believe me, here&#8217;s the full, searchable text of Baum&#8217;s book from Google Books: <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?isbn=0486206912\"><cite class=\"_Pd\">books.google.com\/books?isbn=0486206912<\/cite><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new version of the Reading Rainbow theme song, in which Levar Burton goes power-mad. The end? Thanks, Jezebel! Addendum, same day: I&#8217;ve just noticed that in the video we see &#8220;quotes&#8221; from, it seems, L. Frank Baum&#8217;s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but in fact three of the four quotes are from the MGM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-tG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}