{"id":446,"date":"2008-04-13T15:58:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T21:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/2008\/04\/13\/be-a-good-do-bee-romper-room\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T15:58:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T21:58:21","slug":"be-a-good-do-bee-romper-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/13\/be-a-good-do-bee-romper-room\/just-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a Good Do-Bee \u2014 Romper Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My Mom, bless her soul, was a true packrat. She saved everything. Maybe it was that she grew up during the Great Depression (if so, what’s my excuse?)… No matter; I’m grateful for some of the things she saved and was able to pass along to me. One of them is a packet of stuff from my time in Romper Room<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Romper, bomper, stomper boo.
\nTell me, tell me, tell me, do.
\nMagic mirror, tell me today.
\nHave all my friends had fun at play?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Romper Room was a franchised program that was produced & broadcast by KELO-TV in Sioux Falls. My recollection of the program is pretty sketchy; I remember Mom making a big deal out of it, and having to be on my best behavior. I think my time on the show was cut short by getting sick with the mumps or some other dread disease, but I was not yet 5 years old at the time, and that was a long, long time ago (especially for a 29 year old!)<\/p>\n

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My diploma says that I attended from May 9 through May 20, but doesn’t show the year — there is also a letter from Miss Martha postmarked October 29, 1965 telling me that I was on the list to get into the show, so that places it at 1966. <\/p>\n

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This postcard gives an idea of what the set looked like; the lady in the middle I guess is Miss Martha; no idea what her last name is. You can see the happy Do-Bee and the sad Don’t-Bee on the sign above her. <\/p>\n

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My Mom, bless her soul, was a true packrat. She saved everything. Maybe it was that she grew up during the Great Depression (if so, what’s my excuse?)… No matter; I’m grateful for some of the things she saved and was able to pass along to me. One of them is a packet of stuff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9],"tags":[52,53,54,55],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-just-stuff","category-old-things","tag-do-bee","tag-kelo","tag-preschool","tag-romper-room"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}