{"id":4723,"date":"2017-09-12T10:11:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2017-09-12T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T21:48:54","slug":"hot-wheels-hot-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/hot-wheels-hot-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Wheels hot deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4722 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1278-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1278-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_1278-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m used to Hot Wheels charging several bucks apiece for licensed character cars, so when I saw this series of six Peanuts cars for $1 at my local Ralphs grocery store (with membership card, natch), I scarfed them up without pausing to think &#8220;do I really need Hot Wheels cars?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Charlie Brown car is &#8220;Bone Shaker&#8221;, in tribute to the WHAM! he lands with after missing the football. I like that.<\/li>\n<li>The Lucy car is &#8220;Purple Passion&#8221;. It&#8217;s blue.<\/li>\n<li>Remember when grocery stores like Ralphs wanted customers? Now they just want members. Oh, the old days&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Notice how I didn&#8217;t put an apostrophe in &#8220;Ralphs&#8221;? There&#8217;s a reason for that. The Ralphs chain was started by George Albert Ralphs. That&#8217;s the kind of attention to detail you get when you have a professional writer and editor in charge of the blog. All the typos you&#8217;ve seen in the past? That was just me checking to see if you were paying attention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Added later that day: I realized why Purple Passion had an odd name for a blue car. This are not new Hot Wheels designs. Rather, these are repainted versions of older cars. The vehicle name remains the same. The <a href=\"http:\/\/hotwheels.wikia.com\/wiki\/Purple_Passion\">original Purple Passion<\/a> was released in 1990, and has been rereleased under various repaints ever since.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m used to Hot Wheels charging several bucks apiece for licensed character cars, so when I saw this series of six Peanuts cars for $1 at my local Ralphs grocery store (with membership card, natch), I scarfed them up without pausing to think &#8220;do I really need Hot Wheels cars?&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discounts","category-new-releases","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}