{"id":3738,"date":"2012-08-10T04:43:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T09:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2012-11-06T17:10:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:10:37","slug":"hokus-pokus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/hokus-pokus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hokus Pokus."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/hokuspokus-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hokuspokus-sm\" width=\"540\" height=\"570\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/hokuspokus-sm.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/hokuspokus-sm-142x150.jpg 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><em>I grew up in a small town in the south-eastern United States. I used to walk to the drug store to buy \u00c2\u00a225 candy bars, or get donuts at the donut shop across the street from my Grandparents&#8217; house and then sit all day in the air-conditioned Paramount movie theater to watch showings of &#8216;The Blob&#8217; looped over and over. On main street, there was this great neon sign that held an incredible fascination for me.  It was a giant sign that read: <strong>&#8220;Hokus Pokus Liquor&#8221;.<\/strong>  I wasn&#8217;t really sure about the liquor part, but I did know that hokus pokus was somehow related to <strong>magic!<\/strong>  At night, the ghost on the sign danced from left to right and all the lights blinked in an entrancing show that really was magical!<\/p>\n<p>Years later, I drove thru my home town and the sign was still there.  Unfortunately, the lights didn&#8217;t work anymore and I&#8217;m not sure if today the sign still hangs.  But what a great memory of being hypnotized as a kid by the <strong>Hokus Pokus light show,<\/strong> as I would ride past in the back seat of my aunt&#8217;s station wagon!<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a small town in the south-eastern United States. I used to walk to the drug store to buy \u00c2\u00a225 candy bars, or get donuts at the donut shop across the street from my Grandparents&#8217; house and<br \/><a class=\"btn-more btn btn-danger btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/hokus-pokus\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,35],"tags":[161,136],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-cool-pix","tag-random","tag-retro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4135,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}