{"id":47703,"date":"2021-03-09T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T18:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=47703"},"modified":"2021-03-09T13:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T18:21:47","slug":"barbie-is-62-years-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/03\/barbie-is-62-years-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbie is 62 years young"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today in 1959:&nbsp; &#8220;Barbie&#8221; first introduced by Mattel, Inc., making her debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1959-barbie.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"47704\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1959-barbie.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?attachment_id=47704\" class=\"wp-image-47704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1959-barbie.jpg 215w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1959-barbie-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">1959<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"166\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-barbie.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"47705\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-barbie.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?attachment_id=47705\" class=\"wp-image-47705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-barbie.jpg 166w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-barbie-97x300.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">2021<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruth Handler, co-founder of Mattel, observed her daughter Barbara playing with paper dolls for hours. This sparked Ruth&#8217;s vision to create a 3-D doll for girls to play out their dreams. Then, in 1959, the first Barbie doll-named after Ruth&#8217;s daughter-made its debut at New York Toy Fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first, Barbie was received with skepticism by the industry, but Ruth persevered. And now, over 62 years later, Barbie is a global icon inspiring girls everywhere to be anything. From her 180 careers to her fantasy roles and her countless fashions and accessories &#8211; Barbie has always offered girls choices and endless storytelling possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in 1959:&nbsp; &#8220;Barbie&#8221; first introduced by Mattel, Inc., making her debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York. Ruth Handler, co-founder of Mattel, observed her daughter Barbara&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47703"}],"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=47703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}