{"id":24899,"date":"2010-11-18T10:37:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=24899"},"modified":"2010-11-18T10:49:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:49:54","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-stupid-once-a-king-once-a-knight-wood-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-stupid-once-a-king-once-a-knight-wood-plaque\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Stupid 1960’s ‘Once A King\/Once A Knight’ Wood Plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

This is a very sloppy version of the kind of ‘sexy’ joke signs that became popular around the early 1960s and hung in many a wood paneled rec room somewhere in the vicinity of a ping-pong table and beer keg. I especially love this one because the Knight looks more like a Harlequin getting ready to play hockey.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I also love how completely off center all the text is:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

The two ‘King’s line up but ‘Always’ juts way out to the left. A decent art director would have centered these two lines. The same goes for “Once a Knight’ and ‘is enough’. But off-center and Knights that look like Wayne Gretzky is exactly what this kitsch lover looks for in a sign. The two eyeballs on the back don’t hurt it either.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a very sloppy version of the kind of ‘sexy’ joke signs that became popular around the early 1960s and hung in many a wood paneled rec room somewhere in the vicinity of a ping-pong table and beer keg. I especially love this one because the Knight looks more like a Harlequin getting ready … 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":[181,87,193,1001,999],"tags":[61,3232,3245,2143,2292,2290],"class_list":["post-24899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-romance","category-sign","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-once-a-king-knight","tag-sexy-knight-sign","tag-wood-sign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24899","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=24899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}