{"id":15649,"date":"2015-04-02T13:43:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=15649"},"modified":"2015-04-02T13:43:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:43:28","slug":"rip-gary-dahl-inventor-of-the-pet-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2015\/04\/02\/rip-gary-dahl-inventor-of-the-pet-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Gary Dahl, inventor of the Pet Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Not an April Fool&#8217;s joke! Hence, why I&#8217;m posting it today and according to the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, Gary passed away over a week ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I could&#8217;ve\u00a0sworn seeing Pet Rocks later than 1975 but regardless, I was under 10 in those days so the joke was wasted on me. The\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>&#8216; obituary did nail one thing on the head, the term Pet Rock lives on as slang for a short-lived fad with little merit, say Taylor Swift, Katy Perry or Vanilla Ice.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not an April Fool&#8217;s joke! Hence, why I&#8217;m posting it today and according to the\u00a0New York Times, Gary passed away over a week ago. I could&#8217;ve\u00a0sworn seeing Pet Rocks later than 1975 but regardless, I was under 10 in those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2015\/04\/02\/rip-gary-dahl-inventor-of-the-pet-rock\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,55],"tags":[66,154],"class_list":["post-15649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-obituary","tag-comedy","tag-seventies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15651,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15649\/revisions\/15651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}