{"id":22916,"date":"2015-01-01T17:47:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22916"},"modified":"2016-10-24T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:09:17","slug":"january-1-1965-50-years-ago-tonight-television-history-was-made-at-655-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22916","title":{"rendered":"January 1, 1965&#8230;50 Years Ago Tonight! Television History Was Made!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/January-1-1965...50-Years-Ago-Tonight-Television-History-Was-Made-At-655-P.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>January 1, 1965&#8230;50 Years Ago Tonight! Television History Was Made! <\/p>\n<p>At 6:55 PM, New Years Day night, Soupy Sales did a one minute adlib that is still talked about. It was the famous &#8220;Green Pieces Of  Paper&#8221; incident. Here, thanks to Barry Mitchell, is Soupy telling the story of the gag that almost cost him his job, but earned him a place in television history. Enjoy and SHARE! -Bobby Ellerbee <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a-OGy3Kh7yM&#038;google_comment_id=z12swnshttztyxo2i23yebbjsoactji3m&#038;google_view_type\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a-OGy3Kh7yM&#038;google_comment_id=z12swnshttztyxo2i23yebbjsoactji3m&#038;google_view_type<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SOUPY SALES: Green Pieces of Paper\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a-OGy3Kh7yM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>Legendary TV host Soupy Sales tells a nightclub audience about the New Years&#8217; Day 1965 ad-lib that got him kicked off the air for a week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/776761325694752\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 1, 1965&#8230;50 Years Ago Tonight! Television History Was Made! At 6:55 PM, New Years Day night, Soupy Sales did a one minute adlib that is still talked about. It was the famous &#8220;Green Pieces Of Paper&#8221; incident. Here, thanks to Barry Mitchell, is Soupy telling the story of the gag that almost cost him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[720],"class_list":["post-22916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-host"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}