{"id":230998,"date":"2021-07-29T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=230998"},"modified":"2021-08-01T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T19:16:19","slug":"pitchman-ron-popeil-passes-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=230998","title":{"rendered":"Pitchman Ron Popeil passes at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-230999\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Popiel-Ron-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Popiel-Ron-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Popiel-Ron-768x431.jpg 768w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Popiel-Ron-312x175.jpg 312w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Popiel-Ron.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Ron Popeil, an American original who died this week at 86, thrived in the world of infomercials and home-shopping channels. From roots as an open-air salesman in Chicago, he became a pop-culture icon in the late 20th century by inventing and selling various consumer gadgets from the Popeil Pocket Fisherman to food dehydrators to hair in a can.<\/p>\n<p>But his ability to be a connecting thread between old-time salesmen and the video age was his real superpower. For millions of Gen Xers, he occupied a space somewhere between comedy and smart, homespun business. How he built and spun that image created his immense appeal. Ron Popeil, dead at 86.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Popeil, an American original who died this week at 86, thrived in the world of infomercials and home-shopping channels. From roots as an open-air salesman in Chicago, he became a pop-culture icon in the late 20th century by inventing and selling various consumer gadgets from the Popeil Pocket Fisherman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231163,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230998\/revisions\/231163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}