{"id":2150,"date":"2019-04-15T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T19:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2019-04-15T15:05:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T19:05:24","slug":"mikey-likes-it-version-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2019\/04\/mikey-likes-it-version-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Likes It &#8211; Version 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIFE is full of opportunities.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s my cryptic hint and a wink and a nudge, kind of like Arrested Development&#8217;s<br \/>\nhint that t &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=04SLXwjJvqg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>There is always money in the banana stand<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Quaker\u2019s MIKEY LIKES IT\u201d ad for Life cereal was\u00a0one of the longest-running ads in history.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the one where a kid who hates everything tries Life cereal and LIKES it.<br \/>\nIt came out in 1972 . . . ran for more than 12 years . . . and is one of the most famous ads ever.<\/p>\n<p>Now Quaker is apparently planning some sort of REBOOT of it.<br \/>\nAnd YOUR kid could be the next Mikey.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re looking for kids between 4 and 8 years old . . . boys AND girls.<br \/>\nAnd they posted a four-line script to audition with.<\/p>\n<p>If you want your kid to audition, you have to submit their video through the website <a href=\"https:\/\/lifecastingcontest.com\/en-us\/AgeGate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LifeCastingContest.com<\/strong><\/a> by April 27th.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vYEXzx-TINc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIFE is full of opportunities. That&#8217;s my cryptic hint and a wink and a nudge, kind of like Arrested Development&#8217;s hint that t &#8220;There is always money in the banana stand&#8220;. Quaker\u2019s MIKEY LIKES IT\u201d ad for Life cereal was\u00a0one of the longest-running ads in history. It\u2019s the one where a kid who hates everything","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 23:04:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/sarnia.coolradio.ca\/blogs\/afternoons\/2019\/04\/mikey-likes-it-version-2-0\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}