{"id":714,"date":"2006-10-20T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=714"},"modified":"2006-10-20T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:45:53","slug":"no_more_pink_flamingoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/20\/no_more_pink_flamingoes\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Pink Flamingoes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy! According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-na-pink19oct19,0,7313496.story\">article<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/\">LA Times<\/a>, Union Products, the company that has been churning out 250,000 plastic lawn flamingoes a year for just under a half-century, has shuttered its factory due to rising production costs. The company&#8217;s president, Dennis Plante, and the creator of the kitsch icon, Don Featherstone, are looking for another company that may be interested in acquiring the molds, but there&#8217;s no deal yet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d better inform my mother. She&#8217;ll want to horde a few sets of the silly things, just in case&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy! According to an article in the LA Times, Union Products, the company that has been churning out 250,000 plastic lawn flamingoes a year for just under a half-century, has shuttered its factory due to rising production costs. The company&#8217;s president, Dennis Plante, and the creator of the kitsch icon, Don Featherstone, are looking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}