{"id":11958,"date":"2015-01-09T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11958"},"modified":"2015-01-09T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:04:10","slug":"the-secret-origins-of-play-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-secret-origins-of-play-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Origins Of Play-Doh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/010915_1400_TheSecretOr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"641\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Play-Doh was originally meant for a very different purpose, according to Daven Hiskey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1933 people used coal to heat their homes which generated a lot of soot that clung to the walls.<\/li>\n<li>Play-Doh was invented to remove the soot. It could be rolled against the walls to pick up the grime.<\/li>\n<li>Coal started to be replaced by oil and gas, and vinyl wallpapers that could be cleaned with water and soap became more popular causing sales of Play-Doh to crash.<\/li>\n<li>After removing the cleaning agents and adding some scents the material was repurposed into a toy.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover, while as wallpaper cleaner it sold for $0.34 a can, as a toy they could sell the same amount for $1.50.<\/li>\n<li>The makers soon had close to ten years&#8217; worth of orders to fill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about Play-Doh&#8217;s history, how the person who came up with the name, and the idea to use it as a children&#8217;s toy, was given no credit, and how Captain Kangaroo helped make it a hit over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/play-doh-was-originally-wallpaper-cleaner\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/play-doh-was-originally-wallpaper-cleaner\/\">Today I Found Out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/14\/play-doh-wallpaper-cleaner_n_3430042.html\">Huffington Post<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play-Doh was originally meant for a very different purpose, according to Daven Hiskey: In 1933 people used coal to heat their homes which generated a lot of soot that clung to the walls. Play-Doh was invented to remove the soot. It could be rolled against the walls to pick up the grime. Coal started to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/010915_1400_TheSecretOr1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11961,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions\/11961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}