{"id":15796,"date":"2002-07-01T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-01T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/arthur-spud-melin-the-co-founder-of-wham-o-in\/"},"modified":"2002-07-01T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-01T15:09:00","slug":"arthur-spud-melin-the-co-founder-of-wham-o-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/arthur-spud-melin-the-co-founder-of-wham-o-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur &ldquo;Spud&rdquo; Melin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycfnow.com\/sh\/entertainment\/stories\/entertainment-153756020020630-100606.html\" target=\"_blank\">the co-founder of Wham-O in 1948, died yesterday<\/a> at the age of 77.   Among other things, his company was responsible for the Frisbee (woo hoo!) and the Hula Hoop.  I still have Frisbee dreams every now and then, and miss being in shape enough to play Ultimate.  They turned the Ultimate field we used to play in into a playground, dammit&hellip; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-78419825?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur &ldquo;Spud&rdquo; Melin, the co-founder of Wham-O in 1948, died yesterday at the age of 77. Among other things, his company was responsible for the Frisbee (woo hoo!) and the Hula Hoop. I still have Frisbee dreams every now and then, and miss being in shape enough to play Ultimate. They turned the Ultimate field &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/arthur-spud-melin-the-co-founder-of-wham-o-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[118],"class_list":["post-15796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}