{"id":55168,"date":"2013-05-05T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=55168"},"modified":"2013-05-04T19:57:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T00:57:16","slug":"sunday-fun-vintage-cockroach-racing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/05\/05\/sunday-fun-vintage-cockroach-racing-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Fun: Vintage Cockroach Racing Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

This vintage ad for a cockroach racing game is a great reminder that what seems normal isn’t necessarily natural or inevitable. \u00a0Most Americans today would grimace at the idea of playing with cockroaches, as the insect is held up as an icon of filth and disease. \u00a0But sometime in the ’40s, someone at the International Mutoscope Reel Company thought this was a good idea! \u00a0Or, then again, maybe times haven’t changed so much; the company went bankrupt in 1949.<\/p>\n

\"1\"<\/a>From Weird Universe<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This vintage ad for a cockroach racing game is a great reminder that what seems normal isn’t necessarily natural or inevitable. \u00a0Most Americans today would grimace at the idea of playing with cockroaches, as the insect is held up as an icon of filth and disease. \u00a0But sometime in the ’40s, someone at the International […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,329,253,1711,293,23705],"class_list":["post-55168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-emotion","tag-history","tag-toysgames","tag-social-construction","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55171,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55168\/revisions\/55171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}