{"id":8122,"date":"2011-04-29T13:29:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T18:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=8122"},"modified":"2011-04-29T13:29:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T18:29:35","slug":"rip-elmer-hauldren-the-empire-carpet-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2011\/04\/29\/rip-elmer-hauldren-the-empire-carpet-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Elmer Hauldren, the Empire Carpet Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another piece of shared Chicago culture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/obituaries\/ct-met-hauldren-obit-20110427,0,6022542.story\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\">passed away this week<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Even though I never lived in the Windy City, I watched plenty of WGN like millions of others through cable TV. The Empire Carpet commercials were prevalent on Sundays whenever we caught the old\u00a0<em>Lone Ranger <\/em>and<em> Cisco Kid <\/em>shows or <em>Family Classics with Frazier Thomas.<\/em> I had no idea this guy was more than the spokesman, he was also the genius behind the tune!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><\/em>It&#8217;s amazing how the store&#8217;s catch got embedded in your brain. The darned thing is like a litmus test to check the genuineness of Midwestern DNA. I remember Paul (a born and bred Southsider) knowing it by heart which was obvious. I&#8217;m was more shocked when I found a couple people around Austin who knew the main hook of &#8220;5-8-8, 2-300, EM-piiiiiiiiiiire!&#8221; and they&#8217;d never set foot in Chicago.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another piece of shared Chicago culture passed away this week. Even though I never lived in the Windy City, I watched plenty of WGN like millions of others through cable TV. The Empire Carpet commercials were prevalent on Sundays whenever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2011\/04\/29\/rip-elmer-hauldren-the-empire-carpet-guy\/\">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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factoids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122","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=8122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8123,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions\/8123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}