{"id":510,"date":"2006-03-28T12:35:34","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T12:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2006-03-28T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T12:35:34","slug":"like_a_cigarette_should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/03\/28\/like_a_cigarette_should\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Cigarette Should"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know you’re all waiting on tenterhooks for the second half of my All-Time Favorite Movies<\/a> list, but this was too good not to share immediately. For years, I heard whispered tales about Fred and Barney hawking Winston cigarettes back in the days when The Flintstones<\/i> was running in primetime, but I’d never seen any actual evidence of it. When the news went out that the show would be released on DVD, there was much fanboy speculation about whether the legendary commercial would be included as an extra, and much disappointment when it was not. Some people even suggested that the whole thing was apocryphal, that it never happened.<\/p>\n

But it did. And here’s your proof:<\/p>\n

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I love weird little pop-culture artifacts like this…<\/p>\n

[Ed. note: I found this clip courtesy of Mark Evanier<\/a>; if you’re interested, he offers a brief history of this commercial, The Flintstones<\/i>, and some other primetime cartoons here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know you’re all waiting on tenterhooks for the second half of my All-Time Favorite Movies list, but this was too good not to share immediately. For years, I heard whispered tales about Fred and Barney hawking Winston cigarettes back in the days when The Flintstones was running in primetime, but I’d never seen any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}