{"id":14782,"date":"2013-11-04T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=14782"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:38:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:38:14","slug":"i-want-my-retrotv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/11\/04\/i-want-my-retrotv\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want My RetroTV!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ie-HHXS589g\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re having a little trouble letting go of <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Halloween<\/strong><\/a> at the <em>Casa De Willceau<\/em>. We had a lot of fun this year building Lloyd&#8217;s costume and taking him out on Halloween night. We got a lot of raves and a lot of candy. People kept on asking how we did it. I&#8217;ve decided to supply the curious with a visual and musical answer. <em>How did we do it, and how did it turn out?<\/em> Find out by checking out the video above!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re interested, I trawled the fabulous Internet Archive in search of a suitable monochromatic television program to display on the costume&#8217;s television tube and a bouncy polka number to accompany the video. The <em><strong>Lawrence Welk<\/strong><\/em> program can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/theLawrenceWelkShow-Pilot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, and the polka is called the <em><strong>Jeep Polka<\/strong><\/em> by <em>The Polka Kings<\/em> and can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/JeepPolka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a> Both items are in the Public Domain and can be enjoyed for <strong>FREE!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/11\/01\/the-retro-tv-costume\/tvon11th\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14761\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14761\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/11\/01\/the-retro-tv-costume\/tvon11th\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TVon11th.jpg?fit=640%2C1120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,1120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TVon11th\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TVon11th.jpg?fit=585%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-14761\" alt=\"TVon11th\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TVon11th.jpg?resize=448%2C784&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"448\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TVon11th.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TVon11th.jpg?resize=171%2C300&amp;ssl=1 171w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TVon11th.jpg?resize=585%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re having a little trouble letting go of Halloween at the Casa De Willceau. We had a lot of fun this year building Lloyd&#8217;s costume and taking him out on Halloween night. We got a lot of raves and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/11\/04\/i-want-my-retrotv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[82],"tags":[1199,2199,2870,2872,2871,3674,3668,20,2861,2868,2873,175,2867,3665,186,2862,2869,966,419],"class_list":["post-14782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","tag-1199","tag-2199","tag-accordion","tag-antenna","tag-clarinet","tag-diy","tag-halloween","tag-handmade","tag-lawrence-welk","tag-polk","tag-rabbit-ears","tag-retro","tag-retro-television-costume","tag-sewing","tag-television","tag-the-best-halloween-costume","tag-the-polka-kings","tag-trick-or-treat","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-3Qq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14751,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/11\/01\/the-retro-tv-costume\/","url_meta":{"origin":14782,"position":0},"title":"The Retro TV Costume","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"November 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"When Joe proposed making a vintage TV costume, initially, I wasn't so hot on the idea. 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