{"id":3502,"date":"2011-12-01T22:18:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T22:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2011-12-01T22:18:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T22:18:43","slug":"zombie-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Barbie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because we know it is a $6 billion industry, we go why not Barbie?.<br \/>\nFrom the 1950s onwards girls were encouraged to hone their zombie slaughtering skills in preparation for the inevitable apocalypse. Though young ladies dispose of the undead with ease today, toys such as Mattel\u2019s 1962 \u2018Zombie Attack Barbie\u2019 were instrumental in helping to habituate girls to a new social norm where zombie disposal would become a very necessary life skill.<\/p>\n<p>Now a collectors item \u2018Zombie Attack Barbie\u2019 played a salient role in ensuring the survival of countless young girls who grew up ready and willing to slaughter the zombie menace. This much loved toy still holds fond memories for so many of the lovely ladies from our Zombie Clearance Squads today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/zombie-attack-barbie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/zombie-attack-barbie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-via=\"edodity\"><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a name=\"fb_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" \n        type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we know it is a $6 billion industry, we go why not Barbie?. From the 1950s onwards girls were encouraged to hone their zombie slaughtering skills in preparation for the inevitable apocalypse. Though young ladies dispose of the undead with ease today, toys such as Mattel\u2019s 1962 \u2018Zombie Attack Barbie\u2019 were instrumental in helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[410,411,256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edwinkua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}