{"id":4043,"date":"2009-07-06T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2009-07-06T11:05:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T18:05:04","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-billy-dee-williams-colt-45-lighted-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-billy-dee-williams-colt-45-lighted-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Billy Dee Williams Colt 45 Lighted Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4045\" title=\"billy-dee-wiliams-colt-45-sign\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/billy-dee-wiliams-colt-45-sign.jpg\" alt=\"billy-dee-wiliams-colt-45-sign\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/billy-dee-wiliams-colt-45-sign.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/billy-dee-wiliams-colt-45-sign-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>\n<p>Though slightly past his prime 70&#8217;s days and seemingly a bit more sophisticated than the malt liquor he endorsed, Billy Dee Williams stayed finely oiled by downing the guaranteed-to-make-your-brain-spin Colt 45 in the 1980&#8217;s. He took much criticism for his association with the king of malt liquors but made a kwintessential Kitsch komment when he rebuked his kritics with &#8220;I drink, you drink. Hell, if marijuana was legal, I&#8217;d appear in a commercial for it.&#8221; I&#8217;ll have 40 ounces now, please.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4057\" title=\"billy-dee-williams-colt-45-sign_7602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/billy-dee-williams-colt-45-sign_7602.jpg\" alt=\"billy-dee-williams-colt-45-sign_7602\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/billy-dee-williams-colt-45-sign_7602.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/billy-dee-williams-colt-45-sign_7602-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0pK5HmuCMBM\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4047\" title=\"billy-dee-colt-45-vid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/billy-dee-colt-45-vid.jpg\" alt=\"billy-dee-colt-45-vid\" width=\"443\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/billy-dee-colt-45-vid.jpg 443w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/billy-dee-colt-45-vid-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q6J7QtwEyN8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4049\" title=\"billy-dee-colt-45-commercial-vid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/billy-dee-colt-45-commercial-vid.jpg\" alt=\"billy-dee-colt-45-commercial-vid\" width=\"462\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/billy-dee-colt-45-commercial-vid.jpg 462w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/billy-dee-colt-45-commercial-vid-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though slightly past his prime 70&#8217;s days and seemingly a bit more sophisticated than the malt liquor he endorsed, Billy Dee Williams stayed finely oiled by downing the guaranteed-to-make-your-brain-spin Colt 45 in the 1980&#8217;s. He took much criticism for his association with the king of malt liquors but made a kwintessential Kitsch komment when he &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-billy-dee-williams-colt-45-lighted-sign\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,385,413,191,87,193],"tags":[61,423,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afro","category-bar-accessory","category-celebrity","category-drink","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-billy-dee-williams-colt-45","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043","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=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}