{"id":10665,"date":"2010-02-01T11:32:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=10665"},"modified":"2010-02-01T11:32:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:32:50","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-vanessa-williams-kelloggs-corn-flakes-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-vanessa-williams-kelloggs-corn-flakes-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Vanessa Williams Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Box"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Vanessa-Williams-cornflakes-box_2350\"\n

When Vanessa Williams snagged the Miss America crown in 1984 one of her first honors was to grace this box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. But the box was banished as quickly as her title when sexy photos emerged. Ironic when the text includes lines like “It is with this intent that Kellogg Company provides this limited edition Commemorative Package as a lasting reminder that…we must continue to promote the American dream and encourage all Americans to freely pursue life, liberty, and happiness.”.\"vaness-a-williams-cornflakes-box_2353\"<\/p>\n

Very few of the boxes survived as the inventory that was left in Battle Creek, Michigan where the flakes were made was destroyed in the midst of the scandal.  I was friendly with Vanessa at the time and so felt she didn’t deserve to lose the title let alone the cereal box. But she certainly pursued life, liberty and happiness and lost no time crying over spilt cornflakes.<\/p>\n\"Vanessa-Williams-cornflakes-box_2352\"\n\"Vanessa-Williams-cornflakes-box_2354\"\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Vanessa Williams snagged the Miss America crown in 1984 one of her first honors was to grace this box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. But the box was banished as quickly as her title when sexy photos emerged. Ironic when the text includes lines like “It is with this intent that Kellogg Company provides this … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625,171,413,165,87,193,13,249],"tags":[61,963,965,3232,3245,961],"class_list":["post-10665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising-promotion","category-afro","category-celebrity","category-food","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-music","category-people","tag-allee-willis","tag-illiams-corn-flakes","tag-illiams-kelloggs","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-vanessa-williams-kelloggs-corn-flakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}