{"id":1650,"date":"2018-08-08T19:21:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/?page_id=1650"},"modified":"2020-07-27T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T18:33:13","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a box of old Masters of the Universe figures, an imposter was discovered. He stood the same height, had the same joint style, but did not have fuzzy underwear. <em>He was a fakie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What to do with this dashing fellow in a white spacesuit with stunning red and blue details? I couldn&#8217;t list him under He-Man and Masters of the Universe, as eBay expressly forbids listing fakies under the collection they are ripping-off. So he went under the inauspicious title of &#8220;80&#8217;s Fakie Spaceman Action Figure.&#8221; Who was going to want to buy that? I knew I&#8217;d never get rid of him.<\/p>\n<p>His listing got multiple bids! I was flabbergasted. People were psyched about Fakie Spaceman. The first high bidder didn&#8217;t come through with payment in the allotted time, so Fakie Spaceman went to the next in line. The original winner eventually got in touch with me&#8211;he had been having computer issues&#8211;but he still really wanted Fakie Spaceman. I&#8217;m sorry, buddy. Fakie Spaceman was already gone.<\/p>\n<p>All I have left of Fakie Spaceman is a low-quality JPEG. I wish I had him in my possession now. But if I hadn&#8217;t sold him, he wouldn&#8217;t have created this legacy. <em>Fakie Spaceman is an inspiration <\/em> to us all. His message is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are obscure <em>things<\/em> waiting to be found, and <em>people<\/em> that are waiting to find them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is true of toys and genealogy. The right things and people may not be reunited immediately, but <em>I never give up faith<\/em> that the time will come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a box of old Masters of the Universe figures, an imposter was discovered. He stood the same height, had the same joint&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1650\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}