{"id":1159,"date":"2008-08-27T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:47:57","slug":"the-1955-hillman-minx-has-a-new-gay-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/08\/27\/the-1955-hillman-minx-has-a-new-gay-look\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1955 Hillman Minx has a &#8220;new gay look.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to humorist Dave Barry, we are all aware that the Hillman Minx is one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mctdirect.com\/columnist\/barrysample.php\">silliest<\/a> cars in existence. The hilarity ratchets up a notch when you look back on this ad from a time not so long ago [1955] when the first meaning of &#8220;gay&#8221; was NOT &#8220;homosexual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ljcut\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/ads\/55Hillman1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to humorist Dave Barry, we are all aware that the Hillman Minx is one of the silliest cars in existence. The hilarity ratchets up a notch when you look back on this ad from a time not so long ago [1955] when the first meaning of &#8220;gay&#8221; was NOT &#8220;homosexual.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[729,639],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6036,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/6036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}