{"id":11414,"date":"2013-05-09T19:49:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T00:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=11414"},"modified":"2013-05-09T19:50:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T00:50:20","slug":"remember-when-collecting-was-a-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2013\/05\/09\/remember-when-collecting-was-a-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember when collecting was a blast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=10&amp;t=7257&amp;p=129845#p129845\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11415\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"hasbrofrown1\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hasbrofrown1.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">There was a time when this hobby was simple &#8211; walk into a retail store, and you had a fair chance of finding a Star Wars item you wanted to buy.\u00a0 But for a lot of collectors and kids, those days seem to be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Is all of this Hasbro&#8217;s fault?\u00a0 Probably not.\u00a0 But a lot of collectors, <a title=\"like myself\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=10&amp;t=7257&amp;p=129845#p129845\">like myself<\/a>, feel that most of the issues with the hobby today rest squarely on the shoulders of Hasbro.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This <a title=\"rant\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=10&amp;t=7257&amp;p=129845#p129845\">rant<\/a> is my own opinion, but feel free to chime in with your thoughts in our forums &#8211; even if you think I&#8217;m crazy.\u00a0\u00a0 Because sometimes the truth hurts.\u00a0 M<span class=\"st\">aybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when this hobby was simple &#8211; walk into a retail store, and you had a fair chance of finding a Star Wars item you wanted to buy.\u00a0 But for a lot of collectors and kids, those days seem to be a thing of the past. Is all of this Hasbro&#8217;s fault?\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2013\/05\/09\/remember-when-collecting-was-a-blast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remember when collecting was a blast?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42,39,203],"class_list":["post-11414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","tag-collecting-2","tag-hasbro-2","tag-yakface-forums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11419,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414\/revisions\/11419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}