{"id":7607,"date":"2009-10-20T10:45:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=7607"},"modified":"2010-03-03T15:38:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T22:38:18","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-dr-ben-casey-cufflinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-dr-ben-casey-cufflinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Dr. Ben Casey Cufflinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7609\" title=\"ben-casey-cufflinks_3956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ben-casey-cufflinks_3956.jpg\" alt=\"ben-casey-cufflinks_3956\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ben-casey-cufflinks_3956.jpg 375w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ben-casey-cufflinks_3956-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"overflow: hidden; position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 396px; width: 1px; height: 1px;\">Giving equal time today to Dr. Ben Casey as yesterday was Dr. Kildare&#8217;s day. Ben Casey was actually my first love. I swooned over his swarthy, dark looks and, truth be told, collected more Casey than Kildare. Although I acquired this actual pair of 3D lenticular &#8220;Ben Casey As Portrayed By Vincent Edwards Cuff Links&#8221; at Chic-A-Boom in Hollywood in 1980, I did actually have this exact pair as a kid. They went to school with me almost every day as I became fanatic about wearing blouses with long sleeves and cufflinks holes just so I could have Dr. Casey with me.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"overflow: hidden; position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 396px; width: 1px; height: 1px;\">These &#8220;As seen on ABC Network TV&#8221; cufflinks were made by Bing Crosby Productions exclusively for Sears. Gerald Sears Sales Promotion Service, not THE Sears, in 1962.<\/div>\n<p>Giving equal time today to Dr. Ben Casey as yesterday was Dr. Kildare&#8217;s day. Ben Casey was actually my first love. I swooned over his swarthy, dark looks and, truth be told, collected more Casey than Kildare. Although I acquired this actual pair of 3D lenticular &#8220;Ben Casey As Portrayed By Vincent Edwards Cuff Links&#8221; at Chic-A-Boom in Hollywood in 1980, I did actually have this exact pair as a kid. They went to school with me almost every day as I became fanatic about wearing blouses with long sleeves and cufflinks holes just so I could have Dr. Casey with me.<\/p>\n<p>These &#8220;As seen on ABC Network TV&#8221; cufflinks were made by Bing Crosby Productions exclusively for Sears, Gerald Sears Sales Promotion Service, not THE Sears, in 1962.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7611\" title=\"ben-casey-cufflinks_3948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ben-casey-cufflinks_3948.jpg\" alt=\"ben-casey-cufflinks_3948\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ben-casey-cufflinks_3948.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ben-casey-cufflinks_3948-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7613\" title=\"ben-casey-cufflinks_3954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ben-casey-cufflinks_3954.jpg\" alt=\"ben-casey-cufflinks_3954\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ben-casey-cufflinks_3954.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ben-casey-cufflinks_3954-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7615\" title=\"ben-casey-cufflinks_3950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ben-casey-cufflinks_3950.jpg\" alt=\"ben-casey-cufflinks_3950\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ben-casey-cufflinks_3950.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ben-casey-cufflinks_3950-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving equal time today to Dr. Ben Casey as yesterday was Dr. Kildare&#8217;s day. Ben Casey was actually my first love. I swooned over his swarthy, dark looks and, truth be told, collected more Casey than Kildare. Although I acquired this actual pair of 3D lenticular &#8220;Ben Casey As Portrayed By Vincent Edwards Cuff Links&#8221; &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-dr-ben-casey-cufflinks\/\">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":[317,413,1051,87,193,167,115],"tags":[61,711,713,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-7607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-celebrity","category-fashion","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-memorabilia","category-tv-radio","tag-allee-willis","tag-ben-casey","tag-ben-casey-cufflinks","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607","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=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}