{"id":4841,"date":"2011-12-23T10:41:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2011-12-23T10:44:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T15:44:27","slug":"its-a-major-damned-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4841","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s a Major Damned Award."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atomic-fungus.livejournal.com\/795900.html\">Ed Hering <\/a> was discussing in comments the fact that Walgreens were selling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.achristmasstoryhouse.com\/index.php\/a-christmas-story-movie-facts\/the-leg-lamp\/\">leg lamps<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In case there is a human being alive who doesn&#8217;t understand the provenance of this item, they originated as a premium from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nehi\">Nehi Soft Drink company <\/a>which later became Royal Crown cola, the pop that you got free with pizzas.  The original leg lamp had a more cylindrical shade, and was a bit&#8230; racier. There&#8217;s a closer approximation of the real thing visible, briefly, in &#8220;A Summer Story&#8221; with Charles Grodin and Mary Steenburgen, another of Shep&#8217;s films that I&#8217;ve always enjoyed.  Anyway the inspiration for the actual lamp was this advertisement:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image4840\" alt=nehisign.jpg src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nehisign.jpg\" height=400><\/p>\n<p>Nehi. Knee High. Get it? <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the leg lamps at Walgreens were sold out. But they did have a big &#8220;poster&#8221; sort of thing, a transparent vinyl picture of the item in question, which now adorns the Kitchen window by the door. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image4842\" alt=majoraward.JPG src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/majoraward.JPG\" height=400><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Hering was discussing in comments the fact that Walgreens were selling leg lamps. In case there is a human being alive who doesn&#8217;t understand the provenance of this item, they originated as a premium from Nehi Soft Drink company which later became Royal Crown cola, the pop that you got free with pizzas. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}