{"id":11988,"date":"2013-02-27T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=11988"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:09:27","slug":"the-latest-thing-on-the-jean-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/02\/27\/the-latest-thing-on-the-jean-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Thing on the Jean Scene!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"swingy-header\"<\/a>Hello, one and all! It’s Mrs. Crankipants bidding you a joyous greeting from a time before the internet, a time of three television networks, a time of diminishing expectations and a time that a million hack comedians were all attempting to make it rich doing impressions of the current president. It was 1973, and at the very least, I had my swingy denim jean bag!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"denim-bag\"<\/a>\"ce-12-1973\"<\/a>This was an ad that appeared in an issue of Current Events<\/strong><\/em> from\u00a0 December of 1973. Current Events<\/strong><\/em> was a cheaply printed news publication presented by Xerox and distributed to grade school classrooms under the guise of being a supplement to a civics or social studies course. It had news and entertainment articles aimed at children in between ads for paperback books, encyclopedias and the jean bag above. I think it’s real purpose was to give teachers a chance to smoke a butt or catch 20 winks in the teachers’ lounge while the kiddies were reading about oil embargoes, inflation and once in a lifetime events that they would surely tell their grandchildren about:<\/p>\n

\"Kohoutek\"<\/a>I hate to be all been there, done that<\/em> with you youngsters, but I knew that Mayan Apocalypse wouldn’t amount to much. It’s all been downhill since Kohoutek<\/em> fizzled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, one and all! It’s Mrs. Crankipants bidding you a joyous greeting from a time before the internet, a time of three television networks, a time of diminishing expectations and a time that a million hack comedians were all attempting … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,120,401],"tags":[253,2358,2360,32,2361,2359,2362,336],"class_list":["post-11988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-curious-clutter","category-mrs-crankipants","tag-253","tag-curious-clutter-2","tag-grade-school","tag-hippie","tag-jean-bag","tag-kohoutek","tag-swingy-denim-jean-bag","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-37m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3027,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/06\/15\/mrs-crankipants-invites-you-to-a-mustache-party\/","url_meta":{"origin":11988,"position":0},"title":"Mrs. Crankipants Invites You to a Mustache Party","author":"Mrs. Crankipants","date":"June 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Just like the Macarena and chlamydia, a new trend is sweeping the nation! 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