{"id":1419,"date":"2006-03-07T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2006\/03\/play-dohs-big-five-oh\/"},"modified":"2006-03-07T06:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T06:31:00","slug":"play-dohs-big-five-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/play-dohs-big-five-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"Play-Doh&#8217;s Big Five-Oh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/media\/default.cfm?page=release&amp;release=444\">Play-Doh turns 50 this year<\/a>.  Unlike most things, that does not make me feel old.  I guess because I don&#8217;t really believe it.  How can Play-Doh have an age?  Wasn&#8217;t it always around?  I always had some on hand, literally, and when it was on my hands, I would eat it.  Why not?  It said, &#8220;Non-toxic&#8221; right there on the little yellow barrel.  If it was not meant to be eaten, why make it non-toxic and more importantly, why make it so tasty?  Also, who could resist those colors?  Is there anything as delicious and sensuous as the brand new cylindrical wedge of Play-Doh fresh from the can, unsullied by fat little hands, the mouth-watering bits of drier pieces clinging to its smooth sides?<\/p>\n<p>They are apparently coming out with a pack of 50 colors in honor of this birthday.  Ned wisely asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s the point?  They&#8217;ll all be brown in the morning!&#8221;  But you know, there is a point.  Just because the joyful purity of color is ephemeral, doesn&#8217;t mean it is not worth having for that brief moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play-Doh turns 50 this year. Unlike most things, that does not make me feel old. I guess because I don&#8217;t really believe it. How can Play-Doh have an age? Wasn&#8217;t it always around? I always had some on hand, literally, and when it was on my hands, I would eat it. Why not? It said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-mT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}