{"id":26494,"date":"2014-06-04T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=26494"},"modified":"2014-06-04T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:00:30","slug":"shopping-cart-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/06\/04\/shopping-cart-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The Shopping Cart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limerick Ode To The Shopping Cart<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Sylvan Goldman designed something smart;<br \/>\nHe invented the food shopping cart.<br \/>\nWith its basket, it aids<br \/>\nIn a task that pervades<br \/>\nAll our lives &#8212; buying stuff at the mart.<\/p>\n<p>On June 4, 1937, Humpty Dumpty supermarket chain owner Sylvan Goldman introduced his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sylvan_Goldman\">invention, the shopping cart,<\/a> in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The invention did not catch on immediately. Men found them effeminate; women found them suggestive of a baby carriage. &#8220;I&#8217;ve pushed my last baby buggy,&#8221; offended women informed him. After hiring several male and female models to push his new invention around his store and demonstrate their utility, as well as greeters to explain their use, his folding-style shopping carts became extremely popular and Goldman became a multimillionaire by collecting a royalty on every folding design shopping cart in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limerick Ode To The Shopping Cart By Madeleine Begun Kane Sylvan Goldman designed something smart; He invented the food shopping cart. With its basket, it aids In a task that pervades All our lives &#8212; buying stuff at the mart. On June 4, 1937, Humpty Dumpty supermarket chain owner Sylvan Goldman introduced his invention, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,41,46,2693,42,1524,45],"tags":[3972,332,4153,2063,2096,5012,1206,629,786,4152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26494"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26502,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494\/revisions\/26502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}