{"id":14089,"date":"2004-06-29T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/29\/barbie-drops-ken-for-blaine\/"},"modified":"2004-06-29T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-29T15:48:00","slug":"barbie-drops-ken-for-blaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/29\/barbie-drops-ken-for-blaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbie Drops Ken For Blaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>CNN<\/i> reports on Barbie&rsquo;s new beau, an &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2004\/06\/29\/news\/fortune500\/mattel_barbie\/index.htm?cnn=yes\" target=\"_blank\">Australian surfer named Blaine<\/a>.&rdquo; In case you missed it, &ldquo;after 43 years as one of the world&rsquo;s best-looking couples, Mattel announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2004\/02\/16\/news\/companies\/toyfair_update\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">breakup of Barbie and Ken<\/a> in February.&rdquo;  But don&rsquo;t worry: &ldquo;Despite their highly publicized breakup, Mattel said Barbie and Ken remain friends and will make an appearance in an upcoming film.&rdquo;  Right, I&rsquo;ve heard <i>that<\/i> one before&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108852413182895785?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports on Barbie&rsquo;s new beau, an &ldquo;Australian surfer named Blaine.&rdquo; In case you missed it, &ldquo;after 43 years as one of the world&rsquo;s best-looking couples, Mattel announced the breakup of Barbie and Ken in February.&rdquo; But don&rsquo;t worry: &ldquo;Despite their highly publicized breakup, Mattel said Barbie and Ken remain friends and will make an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/29\/barbie-drops-ken-for-blaine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barbie Drops Ken For Blaine&#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-14089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}