{"id":1216,"date":"2009-09-10T09:31:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/nerf-turns-40"},"modified":"2009-09-10T09:31:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:31:31","slug":"nerf-turns-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/nerf-turns-40","title":{"rendered":"Nerf Turns 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Various blogs on my RSS feed, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2009\/09\/09\/40-years-of-nerf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hack a Day<\/a>, have brought it to my attention that today marks the 40th anniversary of Nerf&#8211;yes, Nerf as in squishy foam footballs, etc. When I was much younger I had a purple Nerf football and a Nerf basketball hoop on my bedroom door. My sister had a set of Nerf rockets with launcher, which I believe must have been the first Nerf projectile product. Apparently ballistic Nerf things are the mainstay of their business these days. Clearly I need to visit toy stores more often.<\/p>\n<p>This means that Nerf and the Internet are almost exactly the same age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various blogs on my RSS feed, such as Hack a Day, have brought it to my attention that today marks the 40th anniversary of Nerf&#8211;yes, Nerf as in squishy foam footballs, etc. When I was much younger I had a purple Nerf football and a Nerf basketball hoop on my bedroom door. My sister had&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/nerf-turns-40\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nerf Turns 40<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}