{"id":15111,"date":"2023-02-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=15111"},"modified":"2023-04-08T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T00:05:01","slug":"passion-for-matchbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/13\/passion-for-matchbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion for Matchbox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Matchbox Man (2021) | Full Documentary\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uI2SCKPeW60?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the story of Charlie Mack, and his 42,000+ (!!!) collection of Matchbox cars and toys. As a kid, I grew up on Matchbox, at a time that Hot Wheels were the <em>el cheapo<\/em> toy cars and Matchbox was the good stuff. Good times&#8230; \ud83d\ude0a Anyway, it&#8217;s nice to see such passion (obsession?) in a toy collector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, who else still have their old Matchbox and Hot Wheels? I still have quite a few of mine. Though all are stored away and not on display, I&#8217;m proud to say that most are in very good shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the story of Charlie Mack, and his 42,000+ (!!!) collection of Matchbox cars and toys. As a kid, I grew up on Matchbox, at a time that Hot Wheels were the el cheapo toy cars and Matchbox was the good stuff. Good times&#8230; \ud83d\ude0a Anyway, it&#8217;s nice to see such passion (obsession?) in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/13\/passion-for-matchbox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Passion for Matchbox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,21,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-collectors-corner","category-miscellaneous","category-youtube","post_format-post-format-video"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15116,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111\/revisions\/15116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}