{"id":14451,"date":"2014-11-14T08:48:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/?p=14451"},"modified":"2014-11-14T08:50:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:50:55","slug":"flashback-friday-hip-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/2014\/11\/14\/flashback-friday-hip-flip\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday &#8211; Hip Flip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Flashback Friday Hip Flip edition.<\/p>\n<p>Back when I was a kid, in the early 70&#8217;s, my parents would have the neighborhood parties down in our basement. I remember sneaking down the stairs and watching them and my friend&#8217;s parents until someone spotted me and be\u00a0back upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>One of the games they&#8217;d play was Hip Flip. It was even marketed as the &#8220;Swinging Game for Swinging People&#8221;. You can&#8217;t make this stuff up people.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hip Flip Game\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3290\/2862301019_1f84de6238.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Hip Flip The Swinging Game for Swinging People\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hip Flip The Swinging Game for Swinging People<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yes, this is a real\u00a0game made by Parker Brothers in 1968. Check out those groovy clothes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3119\/2862301939_8aa516552a.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Hip Flip Directions\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My parents had this game and below is an actual\u00a0photo to prove it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3238\/2863134368_5bd00650ba.jpg?resize=476%2C500\" alt=\"My parents playing Hip Flip\" width=\"476\" height=\"500\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go Mom and Dad! This is way harder than it looks.<\/p>\n<p>I found the original Hip-Flip game on Ebay and couldn&#8217;t resist buying it. Apparently we aren&#8217;t really swinging people because we ended up laughing so hard we couldn&#8217;t even stand up.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to try it, c&#8217;mon over, we can\u00a0turn on the Hi-fi and play Hip Flip. Maybe we&#8217;ll even get the &#8220;real ding-dong bell&#8221; to ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Flashback Friday Hip Flip edition. Back when I was a kid, in the early 70&#8217;s, my parents would have the neighborhood parties down in our basement. I remember sneaking down the stairs and watching them and my friend&#8217;s parents until someone spotted me&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[2117,1947,2136],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ISGQ-3L5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14455,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions\/14455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}