{"id":35015,"date":"2020-08-15T10:03:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T14:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=35015"},"modified":"2020-08-15T22:37:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T02:37:18","slug":"things-to-do-about-four-decades-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/08\/15\/things-to-do-about-four-decades-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to do about four decades ago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"NJ Drive-In circa 1980\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/50223432978\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50223432978_8954a4afac_b.jpg?resize=468%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"NJ Drive-In circa 1980\" width=\"468\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>These ads were on the back of an article in what was probably <em>The Courier Post<\/em> that I thought was very important at the time. This was before the home video market took off and not everybody had cable television just yet so the only way to catch a familiar favorite uncut was to pile into a car and head to a drive-in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These ads were on the back of an article in what was probably The Courier Post that I thought was very important at the time. This was before the home video market took off and not everybody had cable television &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/08\/15\/things-to-do-about-four-decades-ago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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],"tags":[4146,4962,493,4960,3183,122,4963,4961],"class_list":["post-35015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-curious-clutter","tag-4146","tag-animal-house","tag-drive-in","tag-linda-manz","tag-movies","tag-new-jersey","tag-tacony-palmyra","tag-the-wanderers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-96L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20850,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/07\/11\/swimming-in-the-low-end\/","url_meta":{"origin":35015,"position":0},"title":"Swimming in the Low End","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"July 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I just purchased a used 2009 Mac Pro to use as a replacement for my recently departed dual G5 Mac Pro which I also purchased used. 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