{"id":1003,"date":"2007-05-31T11:48:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T11:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2007-05-31T11:48:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T11:48:54","slug":"trippy_bicentennial_cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/31\/trippy_bicentennial_cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Trippy Bicentennial Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I like to think I&#8217;ve got pretty good recall of all the various things I was exposed to during my childhood, especially the pop-cultural stuff, but even <i>I<\/i> have forgotten a lot of the <i>truly weird crap<\/i> that was floating around in the 1970s. Consider, for example, this animated musical tribute to our nation&#8217;s 1976 Bicentennial:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VZRGEYcHMvk\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"350\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VZRGEYcHMvk\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I think my favorite bit is the cornucopia spewing forth hamburgers, hot dogs, and console television sets. That&#8217;s America in a nutshell, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I like to think I&#8217;ve got pretty good recall of all the various things I was exposed to during my childhood, especially the pop-cultural stuff, but even I have forgotten a lot of the truly weird crap that was floating around in the 1970s. Consider, for example, this animated musical tribute to our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-curiosities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}