{"id":33727,"date":"2025-04-29T17:49:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33727"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:49:39","slug":"the-past-was-a-different-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/29\/the-past-was-a-different-place\/","title":{"rendered":"The Past Was A Different Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, the 1970s show <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_%241.98_Beauty_Show\" target=\"_new\"><em>The $1.98 Beauty Show<\/em><\/a> came to mind recently.  It was a briefly running variety program that looked like a beauty pageant but really was not.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, as with <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/29\/in-1979-we-all-wanted-to-be-bowzer\/\" target=\"_new\">Sha Na Na<\/a>, you can find full episodes digitized from videocassette recorder early adopters&#8217; home collections:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fF7yrbl_X6E?si=9SUBqX_HSXzuzYVa\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe it&#8217;s not that much different from what you see today as entertainment, but adjusted for the changing times.<\/p>\n<p>And for the life of me, I cannot remember <em>why<\/em> this program came to mind.  Sometimes, I think I&#8217;ve just got my brain on Shuffle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, the 1970s show The $1.98 Beauty Show came to mind recently. It was a briefly running variety program that looked like a beauty pageant but really was not. Apparently, as with Sha Na Na, you can find full episodes digitized from videocassette recorder early adopters&#8217; home collections: Well, maybe it&#8217;s not that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33728,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33727\/revisions\/33728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}