{"id":5354,"date":"2011-04-11T19:51:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5354"},"modified":"2011-04-11T19:51:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:51:30","slug":"wham-o-daredevils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5354","title":{"rendered":"Wham-O Daredevils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2011\/z041111wheelie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tWDprSdH2xQ&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>This <\/strong><strong>1966 commercial<\/strong><\/a> for the <strong>Wham-O Wheelie Bar<\/strong> really brings back a lot of memories.\u00a0 I would have been <strong>7<\/strong> or <strong>8<\/strong> years old depending on when the commercial first appeared.\u00a0 I had a <strong>sting ray<\/strong> bike. \u00a0 I rode\/loved that bike like a singing cowboy loved his horse. \u00a0\u00a0 I never had a <strong>Wham-O Wheelie Bar <\/strong>though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides the <strong>nostalgia factor<\/strong> of the commercial, I also found it interesting that kids riding the bikes in the commercial were riding with <strong>no helmets, barefoot<\/strong>, and <strong>down the middle of the street<\/strong>.\u00a0 They were also standing on the seat and doing tricks [things that we all did or at least tried back in the day] but that would never pass the safety standards of today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2011\/04\/11\/wham-o-wheelie-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Neatorama<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1966 commercial for the Wham-O Wheelie Bar really brings back a lot of memories.\u00a0 I would have been 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5355,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}