{"id":6155,"date":"2009-09-04T10:12:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T17:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=6155"},"modified":"2009-09-04T10:12:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T17:12:01","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-1950-collapsible-girl-scouts-tin-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-1950-collapsible-girl-scouts-tin-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; 1950&#8217;s Collapsible Girl Scouts Tin Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6159\" title=\"girl-scout-cup_7814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/girl-scout-cup_7814.jpg\" alt=\"girl-scout-cup_7814\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/girl-scout-cup_7814.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/girl-scout-cup_7814-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n<p>When I was a Girl Scout this was my favorite piece of gear. &nbsp;Only 2-1\/2&#8243; tall at full stature (1&#8243; collapsed), I used to load this baby up with Faygo Red Pop and a teaspoon plop of Sealtest vanilla ice cream and start dipping in my Thin Mints.&nbsp;I loved the sound the cup made as I shuffled the thin layers of collapsible tin like a deck of cards or accordion.<\/p>\n<p>Though this isn&#8217;t my actual cup, this one&#8217;s adult life has been dedicated to serving as an excellent horse hoof sound effect in my recording studio.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6161\" title=\"girl-scout-cup_7809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/girl-scout-cup_7809.jpg\" alt=\"girl-scout-cup_7809\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/girl-scout-cup_7809.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/girl-scout-cup_7809-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">When I was a Girl Scout this was my favorite piece of gear. I loved the sound it made as I shuffled the thin layers of collapsible tin like a deck of cards or accordion. Though this isn&#8217;t my actual cup, this one&#8217;s adult life has been dedicated to serving as an excellent horse hoof sound effect in my recording studio.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Only 2-1\/2&#8243; tall at full stature (1&#8243; collapsed), I used to load this baby up with Faygo Red Pop and a teaspoon plop of Sealtest vanilla ice cream and start dipping in my Thin mints.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a Girl Scout this was my favorite piece of gear. &nbsp;Only 2-1\/2&#8243; tall at full stature (1&#8243; collapsed), I used to load this baby up with Faygo Red Pop and a teaspoon plop of Sealtest vanilla ice cream and start dipping in my Thin Mints.&nbsp;I loved the sound the cup made as &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-1950-collapsible-girl-scouts-tin-cup\/\">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":[191,181,87,193,167],"tags":[61,595,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-6155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drink","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-memorabilia","tag-allee-willis","tag-girl-scouts-cup","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155","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=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}