{"id":47559,"date":"2021-02-25T15:18:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=47559"},"modified":"2021-02-25T15:19:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:19:27","slug":"a-mister-is-no-more-mr-potato-head-goes-gender-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/02\/a-mister-is-no-more-mr-potato-head-goes-gender-neutral\/","title":{"rendered":"A mister is no more: Mr. Potato Head goes gender neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mr. Potato Head is no longer a mister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ph-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ph-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ph-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ph-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ph.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hasbro, the company that makes the potato-shaped plastic toy, is giving the spud a gender-neutral new name: Potato Head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The change will appear on boxes this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90607931\/the-iconic-mr-potato-head-gets-a-21st-century-rebrand?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss\">Fast Company<\/a>, the company will unveil the new brand in the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company announced that boxed sets that don\u2019t present a normative family structure will also be available for purchase, Fast Company reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toymakers have been updating their classic brands to appeal to kids today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbie has shed its blonde image and now comes in multiple skin tones and body shapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas the Tank Engine added more girl characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And American Girl is now selling a boy doll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hasbro said Mr. Potato Head, which has been around for about 70 years, needed a modern makeover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1952, Hasbro launched Mr. Potato Head, and in 1953 launched Mrs. Potato Head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Potato Head is no longer a mister. Hasbro, the company that makes the potato-shaped plastic toy, is giving the spud a gender-neutral new name: Potato Head. The change will&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}