{"id":693116,"date":"2010-03-16T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003352"},"modified":"2010-03-16T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:06:10","slug":"this-is-what-kids-did-for-fun-in-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/693116","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Kids Did For Fun In The 80s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/031610-006-olympic-sales-thumb-300x200-38238.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Josh at GeekSix unearthed a comic book ad that might be familiar to you if you were a kid in the 80s. Olympic Sales Club was one of those door-to-door greeting card companies that enlisted kids across the country to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksix.com\/2010\/03\/i-was-a-preteen-greeting-card-salesman\/\">sell crap to neighbors in exchange for merch<\/a> your parents wouldn&#8217;t buy you. <\/p>\n<p>For adults, multi-page direct mail letters tend to get good response rates; Olympic figured out how to get a similar response from kids by cramming a single comic book page with as many damned items as they could fit. (Like Josh, I sold for Olympic. I ended up with a Kodamatic.) <\/p>\n<p>Also, their CSRs looked a little like Sea Monkeys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksix.com\/2010\/03\/i-was-a-preteen-greeting-card-salesman\/\">&#8220;I was a preteen greeting card salesman&#8221;<\/a> [GeekSix]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh at GeekSix unearthed a comic book ad that might be familiar to you if you were a kid in the 80s. Olympic Sales Club was one of those door-to-door greeting card companies that enlisted kids across the country to sell crap to neighbors in exchange for merch your parents wouldn&#8217;t buy you. For adults, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Uji","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}