{"id":11537,"date":"2021-07-28T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11537"},"modified":"2021-07-29T18:08:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T01:08:39","slug":"ron-popeil-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/28\/ron-popeil-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Popeil Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/obituaries\/infomercial-king-ron-popeil-dies-86-n1275355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from NBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Infomercial king Ron Popeil dies at 86<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronco&#8217;s Showtime Rotisserie &amp; BBQ, and Popeil&#8217;s late-night infomercials pitching it, helped inscribe the phrase &#8220;set it and forget it&#8221; into the American lexicon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All Ronco Product Commercials (Internal Reel) (1970s-1980s)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WfcIPuvZE9I?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ron Popeil, the inventor and infomercial icon whose kitchen and direct-to-consumer products generated billions of dollars in U.S. sales, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Popeil &#8220;lived his life to the fullest and passed in the loving arms of his family,&#8221; a statement from his spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No cause of death was provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Popeil first appeared on television in 1959 in an infomercial for the Chop-o-Matic, and his company, Ronco, founded by his father, eventually went on to produce products including Hair in a Can and Pocket Fisherman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/obituaries\/infomercial-king-ron-popeil-dies-86-n1275355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NBC News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NBC News Infomercial king Ron Popeil dies at 86 Ronco&#8217;s Showtime Rotisserie &amp; BBQ, and Popeil&#8217;s late-night infomercials pitching it, helped inscribe the phrase &#8220;set it and forget it&#8221; into the American lexicon. Ron Popeil, the inventor and infomercial icon whose kitchen and direct-to-consumer products generated billions of dollars in U.S. sales, died Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}