{"id":389238,"date":"2022-11-30T14:19:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T14:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=389238"},"modified":"2022-11-30T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T14:42:08","slug":"38-very-specific-christmastime-things-that-ll-take-any-gen-x-er-or-old-millennial-on-a-nostalgic-trip-right-back-to-their-80s-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/38-very-specific-christmastime-things-that-ll-take-any-gen-x-er-or-old-millennial-on-a-nostalgic-trip-right-back-to-their-80s-childhood","title":{"rendered":"38 Very Specific Christmastime Things That&#8217;ll Take Any Gen X&#8217;er Or Old Millennial On A Nostalgic Trip Right Back To Their &#8217;80s Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Making your parents take you to McDonald&#8217;s so that you could get the holiday edition Muppet Babies stuffed animals: Muppet Vintage\/ etsy.com 2. And also making your parents buy fast food Christmas tree ornaments (because the commercials for them made you feel like you needed them): ebay.com 3. Hanging acrylic Christmas stockings on the mantle that always felt very flimsy and were probably very huge fire hazards: Rolployz\/ etsy.com 4. Watching lots of random Hanna-Barbera Christmas specials: Hanna-barbera \/ &#169;Hanna-Barbera\/Courtesy Everett Collection 5. Being a little scared when watching Mickey&#8217;s Christmas Carol , &#8217;cause it was a tad darker than you expected: Disney 6. Getting Ziggy cards from your grandma or aunts: ebay.com 7. Taking some sorta holiday photo that looked like this (basically, lots of cheap velvet, plaid, and faux satin): Nicole Richie\/ Instagram: @nicolerichie 8. And wearing lots of itchy and thick holiday sweaters &#8212; that were literally what we would call &#8220;ugly Christmas sweaters'&#8221; today: 216Vintage\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmastime in the 1980s was all about very ugly sweaters and circling all the toys you wanted in the Sears Wish Book and Toys &#8220;R&#8221; Us Christmas Dream Book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}