{"id":213,"date":"2006-06-16T07:56:31","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T07:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/06\/16\/rollersnakes-go-big-time-for-1989-christmas-advert\/"},"modified":"2006-06-16T14:25:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T14:25:18","slug":"rollersnakes-go-big-time-for-1989-christmas-advert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/06\/16\/rollersnakes-go-big-time-for-1989-christmas-advert\/","title":{"rendered":"Rollersnakes Go Big-time for 1989 Christmas Advert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/82\/rad82_28-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/82\/thumb-rad82_28-9.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"176\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Rollersnakes December 1989 Advert\" title=\"Rollersnakes December 1989 Advert\"  \/><\/a>This double-page advert UK from mail-order stalwarts, Rollersnakes, was a bold change from their normal format. They normally used smaller adverts to generate interest, but in this case they used two pages to list a full range in true home-shopping style. In 1989 the cost of trying to illustrate all those products would have been prohibitive: sales would never have justified the cost of scanning all those pictures let alone the charges for page make-up in the days before DTP &#8212; so this is a text-only advert. A simple price list in fact.<br \/>\nDecks were all around \u00c2\u00a340 and wheels tended to be \u00c2\u00a330 a set. So no big changes there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This double-page advert UK from mail-order stalwarts, Rollersnakes, was a bold change from their normal format. They normally used smaller adverts to generate interest, but in this case they used two pages to list a full range in true home-shopping style. In 1989 the cost of trying to illustrate all those products would have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adverts","category-issue-82-december-1989"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","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=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}