{"id":1455,"date":"2003-11-19T14:23:42","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T19:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/meanwhile_back_"},"modified":"2003-11-19T14:23:42","modified_gmt":"2003-11-19T19:23:42","slug":"meanwhile_back_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, back at the ranch&#8230;err&#8230; workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to tell you about a new project I am working on, but first&#8230;a bit of trivia.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8216;forties there was a fifteen minute radio show for kids, &#8220;Sky King,&#8221; that immortalized the words, &#8220;Meanwhile, back at the ranch&#8230;.&#8221; as a convenient device for changing scenes. <\/p>\n<p>This post World War II drama on ABC featured a flying rancher\/detective who was a futuristic hero of the time, very much like an early Buckaroo Banzai.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember any of the plots, but this show had more secret decoder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otr.com\/sky_king_article.html\">rings<\/a> than Mission Impossible. The Sky King radio show ended in 1954, but issued some of the era&#8217;s most innovative <a href=\"http:\/\/home.teleport.com\/~jrolsen\/premiums\/skyking.html\">premiums<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"sk_blinker.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/sk_blinker.gif\" width=\"160\" height=\"170\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sky King (Sky was short for Skyler) had a team of four people backing him up; Penny and Clipper, Jim Bell and Martha. He flew two airplanes, the Songbird and the Flying Arrow and rode a horse named Yellow Fury. His home base was the Flying Crown Ranch, which had a fully equipped airfield. <\/p>\n<p>One final piece of history. The announcer was Mike Wallace, who later became a newsman and host of 60 Minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it appears that our fifteen minutes are up&#8230;I will continue with news from the workshop in my next installment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to tell you about a new project I am working on, but first&#8230;a bit of trivia. In the &#8216;forties there was a fifteen minute radio show for kids, &#8220;Sky King,&#8221; that immortalized the words, &#8220;Meanwhile, back at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1455\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1794],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-nt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}