{"id":274,"date":"2007-12-31T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T08:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:10:57","slug":"nixon-at-the-tournament-of-roses-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/nixon-at-the-tournament-of-roses-parade.html","title":{"rendered":"Nixon at the Tournament of Roses Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/066-Grand-Marshal-Vice-President-Richard-Nixon-703059.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/066-Grand-Marshal-Vice-President-Richard-Nixon-703033.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Who&#8217;s that cheery guy waving from the back of a convertible Cadillac?  Why, it&#8217;s the nation&#8217;s most beloved politician, Richard Nixon!   Presiding over the 1960 Tournament of Roses parade, Nixon&#8217;s car was overcome by beautiful women wishing to lavish kisses upon the vice-president&#8230;oh, um, sorry, this IS Nixon we&#8217;re talking about, and from what I&#8217;ve read he was always a bit creepy.   Notice the number of people in the crowd looking away as he drove by.   I actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectorsquest.com\/collection\/307\/tournament-of-roses-parade-1960s.html\">uploaded these to Collector&#8217;s Quest<\/a>, in conjunction with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectorsquest.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/31\/the-tournament-of-roses-parades-of-the-1960s\/\">article I wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-569283961774008420?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s that cheery guy waving from the back of a convertible Cadillac? Why, it&#8217;s the nation&#8217;s most beloved politician, Richard Nixon! Presiding over the 1960 Tournament of Roses parade, Nixon&#8217;s car was overcome by beautiful women wishing to lavish kisses upon the vice-president&#8230;oh, um, sorry, this IS Nixon we&#8217;re talking about, and from what I&#8217;ve [&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":[169,545,543,546],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}