{"id":631,"date":"2014-11-02T05:24:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T05:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kittyblog.asinglelion.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2014-11-02T05:24:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T05:24:21","slug":"lordy-lordy-kitty-and-mimmy-are-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Lordy Lordy Kitty  and Mimmy are 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u00a0 is Hello Kitty\u2019s 40<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. \u00a0It is my\u00a0 tradition to \u00a0fire Up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellokittyonline.com\/\">Hello Kitty Online <\/a>and\u00a0 say happy birthday to Kitty White and her sister Mimmy.\u00a0 I know Kitty get all the attention \u00a0and Mimmy was revealed later.<\/p>\n<p>No need to write a long retrospective . There a lot \u00a0of that in the media because of Hello Kitty\u2019s 40<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0 anniversary\u00a0 and Kitty Con 2014.\u00a0 One new story did get\u00a0 my ire,\u00a0 Business Week\u2019s \u00a0piece<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-10-31\/hello-kitty-turns-40\"> Hello Kitty a Victim of Disney&#8217;s Frozen Juggernaut<\/a>. This is pure \u00a0poppycock. Hello Kitty has been around for 40 years. Frozen is hot in 2014 but I guarantee you Frozen will be in the Yard sale bin five years later. Toy Story and Lilo and Stitch were the big thing years ago, but where are they now, are they big as Hello Kitty? Come back to this article in ten years and tell me who remembers Frozen. There still will be Hello Kitty fans who grew up with her.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed one thing with curt rumblings at Kitty Con and the Hello Kitty\u00a0 Men project: can 2015 be the year of the Male Hello Kitty Fan? I hope so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hello-international.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-632\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hello-international.jpg\" alt=\"hello international\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hello-international.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hello-international-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kitty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-633\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kitty.jpg\" alt=\"Kitty\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kitty.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kitty-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mimmy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mimmy.jpg\" alt=\"mimmy\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mimmy.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mimmy-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u00a0 is Hello Kitty\u2019s 40th birthday. \u00a0It is my\u00a0 tradition to \u00a0fire Up Hello Kitty Online and\u00a0 say happy birthday to Kitty White and her sister Mimmy.\u00a0 I know Kitty get all the attention \u00a0and Mimmy was revealed later. No &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/?p=631\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,132],"tags":[190,195],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-media","tag-hello-kitty-40th-anniversary","tag-hello-kitty-birthday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}