{"id":1660,"date":"2014-02-13T09:52:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2014-02-13T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:52:45","slug":"barbie-to-be-on-si-swimsuit-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2014\/02\/13\/barbie-to-be-on-si-swimsuit-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbie to be on SI Swimsuit cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1661 alignright\" alt=\"Barbie-Sports Illustrated\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/02\/barbie.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/02\/barbie.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/02\/barbie-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Ah, Barbie. With all the critics of Barbie&#8217;s waist and long legs &#8211; we will hear it when the 2014 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition hits the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reports, the doll will actually appear as a cover wrap on 1,000 or more copies of the issue with the caption &#8220;The doll that started it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now 55, Barbie does not look all too different from her early years.<\/p>\n<p>So exactly why is Barbie going to the cover? Who knows.<\/p>\n<p>Either way its sure to get more than its fair share of publicity, which more or less is what really matters anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not like retailers such as Target are complaining, they are going to release a special edition Barbie.<\/p>\n<p>Barbie you are 55 and still making $1.3 billion a year in sales. Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Barbie. With all the critics of Barbie&#8217;s waist and long legs &#8211; we will hear it when the 2014 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition hits the shelves. According to multiple reports, the doll will actually appear as a cover wrap on 1,000 or more copies of the issue with the caption &#8220;The doll that started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}