{"id":1146,"date":"2009-01-14T00:22:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T07:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:47:45","slug":"a334-tin-advertising-whistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"#a334 :: Tin advertising whistle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/011309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1147\" title=\"ENLARGE\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/011309-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/011309-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/011309-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/011309.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Vintage viral marketing, for what may or may not be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=captain+black+tobacco&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a\">Captain Black<\/a> tobacco.<\/p>\n<p>Blow through the stem and you get a sweet bosun&#8217;s-pipe <i>peep<\/i>. By the look of the printing,\u00a0this dates back at least 50 or 60 years, but Googling bears no clear clues to its origins.<\/p>\n<p>You gotta love the mascot&#8217;s pissed-off expression and his jaunty pirate&#8217;s hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vintage viral marketing, for what may or may not be Captain Black tobacco. Blow through the stem and you get a sweet bosun&#8217;s-pipe peep. By the look of the printing,\u00a0this dates back at least 50 or 60 years, but Googling bears no clear clues to its origins. You gotta love the mascot&#8217;s pissed-off expression and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,37,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-ephemera","category-symbol","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}