{"id":1497,"date":"2002-06-30T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2002-06-30T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2002-06-30T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2002-06-30T17:00:57","slug":"whamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"WHAM-O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Thanks to Adam for posting the following.  I heard this mentioned on NPR this morning on my way home and told myself I should find a link about it and post it:<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><BLOCKQUOTE><P>Arthur &#8220;Spud&#8221; Melin, co-founder of the toy company that introduced the world to the Frisbee, Hula Hoop and other faddish gems of American pop culture, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2002\/06\/29\/melin.htm\">died<\/a>. He was 77 and had Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. [<a href=\"http:\/\/live.curry.com\/\">Adam Curry: Adam Curry&#8217;s Weblog<\/a>]<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Adam for posting the following. I heard this mentioned on NPR this morning on my way home and told myself I should find a link about it and post it: Arthur &#8220;Spud&#8221; Melin, co-founder of the toy company that introduced the world to the Frisbee, Hula Hoop and other faddish gems of American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}