{"id":8303,"date":"2024-04-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2024-03-25T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:53:00","slug":"who-remembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/who-remembers\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO REMEMBERS\u2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I ran across something on YouTube that gave me a flashback to my boyhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who here is old enough to remember plastic models? Mine were mostly planes and ships, with a string of the Aurora warrior figures. Revell, Monogram\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who remembers the tiny bottles of model paint, and the distinctive smell of airplane glue before it became a substance of abuse?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walk down memory lane is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Aurora, Revell, Monogram Models Story\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KBgCRQ2wIvw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KBgCRQ2wIvw?si=UAN8jtvQS1cbrIP5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It has some excellent commentary on that particular industry and on marketing that would make it worthy of\u00a0<em>Forbes\u00a0<\/em>or the\u00a0<em>Harvard Business Review.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey! What\u2019s this stuff doing on a gun blog? Well, Revell made model guns, and Aurora made model artillery pieces, and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026and I just felt like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across something on YouTube that gave me a flashback to my boyhood. Who here is old enough to remember plastic models? Mine were mostly planes and ships, with a string of the Aurora warrior figures. Revell, Monogram\u2026&nbsp; Who remembers the tiny bottles of model paint, and the distinctive smell of airplane glue before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8304,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions\/8304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}