{"id":5100,"date":"2012-01-03T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2012-01-04T09:19:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:19:45","slug":"getting-in-the-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5100","title":{"rendered":"Getting in the Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A few days ago, I wrote a news chum post about toys being a reflection of ourselves<\/a>.\u00a0 This article is perhaps an extension of that post–if you’ve ever envisioned yourself as an action figure. What prompted this was two articles I saw earlier today. The first was about a new Steve Jobs action figure that is (perhaps) too realistic<\/a>: it includes all the Jobs trademarks: the New Balance kicks, the blue jeans, the black mock turtleneck, the silver-framed eye-glasses, the beard, the all-knowing stare. You can see a picture of it here<\/a>, along with a lot more details. If you’re interested, the doll costs $99, and\u00a0comes with plenty of accessories too, such as extra glasses and two apples, including one with a chomp taken out of it.<\/p>\n

The other article covered other action toys as well<\/a>. It included action figures based on advertising characters such as the New Spice Guy, the Dos XX guy, and the Mayhem guy from Allstate<\/a>, as well as the Crazy Cat Lady<\/a> (although they didn’t mention the Librarian<\/a>), your favorite political candidates<\/a> (including Sarah Palin), or college faculty action figures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, for those who prefer the other direction: You might appreciate this article asking how Barbie would look if she were life-sized<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Music:<\/strong> What’d I Say<\/em> (Ray Charles): What’d I Say Part I\/Part II<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, I wrote a news chum post about toys being a reflection of ourselves.\u00a0 This article is perhaps an extension of that post–if you’ve ever envisioned yourself as an action figure. What prompted this was two articles I saw earlier today. The first was about a new Steve Jobs action figure that Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","tag-childrens-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5102,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions\/5102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}