{"id":25353,"date":"2021-07-29T10:08:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=25353"},"modified":"2021-08-30T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:08:52","slug":"r-i-p-ronco-ron-popeil-father-to-veg-o-matic-and-mr-microphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2021\/07\/29\/r-i-p-ronco-ron-popeil-father-to-veg-o-matic-and-mr-microphone\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Ron Popeil, father to Veg-o-matic and Mr. Microphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved the world of Ron Popeil and K-Tel! His products, and especially their brilliant, pioneering commercials, were a giant part of the backdrop to my childhood, adolescence and adulthood. I still can recite the entire voiceovers to the original Veg-o-matic and Mr. Microphone commercials. My obsession with infomercials goes directly back to Popeil. In my opinion, he was a genius. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/news\/celebrity-deaths\/ron-popeil-1935-2021-ronco-founder-and-infomercial-pitchman\/\">RIP, Ron.<\/a> \u2764<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"591\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ron-Popeil.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ron-Popeil.jpg 840w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ron-Popeil-640x450.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ron-Popeil-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ronco &amp; Popeil Commercials pt. 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XQZtlvDiJ4s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mr. Microphone By Ronco (Commercial, 1978)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hqIrzkPDtrk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All Ronco Product Commercials (Internal Reel) (1970s-1980s)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WfcIPuvZE9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved the world of Ron Popeil and K-Tel! His products, and especially their brilliant, pioneering commercials, were a giant part of the backdrop to my childhood, adolescence and adulthood. I still can recite the entire voiceovers to the original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25367,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25353\/revisions\/25367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}