{"id":190,"date":"2006-05-23T06:36:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T06:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/05\/23\/from-a-time-before-ipods-tango-radio-hat-competition-1989\/"},"modified":"2006-05-22T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T09:57:52","slug":"from-a-time-before-ipods-tango-radio-hat-competition-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/05\/23\/from-a-time-before-ipods-tango-radio-hat-competition-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"From a time before iPods: Tango &#8220;Radio Hat&#8221; competition 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/82\/rad82_05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/82\/thumb-rad82_05.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Tango competition from 1989 Rad skateboard magazine\" title=\"Tango competition from 1989 Rad skateboard magazine\"  \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t know which is more amusing, the weird product or the placement of this advertorial competition.<br \/>\nThe prize is a cap containing a radio, complete with a telescopic aerial. Cheesy or what? Did these things work, I wonder?<br \/>\nThe placement of the competition before the contents page (they were normally near the back of the magazine) and opposite the paid-for Tango advert would have been the work of the advertising department. They were effectively giving away one of &#8220;their&#8221; advertising pages with something which looked almost like magazine editorial.<br \/>\nI have no memory of this, but I suspect this competition would not have attracted many entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know which is more amusing, the weird product or the placement of this advertorial competition. The prize is a cap containing a radio, complete with a telescopic aerial. Cheesy or what? Did these things work, I wonder? The placement of the competition before the contents page (they were normally near the back of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-82-december-1989"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}