{"id":15305,"date":"2002-12-30T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-30T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/30\/midge-barbies-pregnant-pal\/"},"modified":"2002-12-30T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-30T16:49:00","slug":"midge-barbies-pregnant-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/30\/midge-barbies-pregnant-pal\/","title":{"rendered":"Midge, Barbie&#8217;s Pregnant Pal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m not making this up.  &ldquo;Midge is sold as part of the &lsquo;Happy Family&rsquo; set, wearing a tiny wedding ring and a detachable stomach with a curled-up baby inside. Her husband, Alan, and 3-year-old child Ryan are sold separately.&rdquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&amp;cid=573&amp;ncid=757&amp;e=2&amp;u=\/nm\/20021227\/od_nm\/walmart_dc\" target=\"_blank\">Wal-Mart is pulling the doll from its shelves<\/a>, although it was supposedly due to customer complaints rather than any store policy.  I don&rsquo;t understand the problem here, although I suppose if it was a detachable <i>wedding ring<\/i> I can see why Wal-Mart&rsquo;s typically conservative management would get in a huff.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90102272?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m not making this up. &ldquo;Midge is sold as part of the &lsquo;Happy Family&rsquo; set, wearing a tiny wedding ring and a detachable stomach with a curled-up baby inside. Her husband, Alan, and 3-year-old child Ryan are sold separately.&rdquo; Wal-Mart is pulling the doll from its shelves, although it was supposedly due to customer complaints &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/30\/midge-barbies-pregnant-pal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Midge, Barbie&#8217;s Pregnant Pal&#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-15305","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\/15305","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=15305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}