{"id":261,"date":"2008-01-13T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:10:50","slug":"riding-the-red-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/riding-the-red-comet.html","title":{"rendered":"Riding the Red Comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Riding_the_red_comet.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/b\/b6\/Riding_the_red_comet.jpg\/800px-Riding_the_red_comet.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Riding_the_red_comet.jpg\">an overexposed image<\/a>, adjusted with Photoshop.  This Red Comet, a fine steel wagon with rubber wheels, was probably a big gift for a kid back &#8216;in the day&#8217; &#8211; no Toys R Us, and not a lot of money, meant not a lot of toys to go around.   A wagon gave a kid transportation:  load up the dog, fill it with rocks, drag around a sibling, all kinds of things  beyond the  scope of two little arms.  Also, for a mom whose arms are already burdened with all kinds of carrying, a kid can be pulled along behind when working in the yard.  Big rubber wheels and high clearance allowed for off-road travel.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/radioflyer.com\/history\/heritage.html\">radio flyer<\/a> * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/toy-wagon-1?cat=technology\">how wagons are made<\/a> * <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1950s\/browse_thread\/thread\/3bcc9cc950d12049\/5c8d83eb724055ad?lnk=st&amp;q=%22little+red+wagon%22++-dodge#5c8d83eb724055ad\">thoughts on red wagon origins<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-4631917868219302649?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an overexposed image, adjusted with Photoshop. This Red Comet, a fine steel wagon with rubber wheels, was probably a big gift for a kid back &#8216;in the day&#8217; &#8211; no Toys R Us, and not a lot of money, meant not a lot of toys to go around. A wagon gave a kid transportation: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,13,524,315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}