{"id":3111,"date":"2008-06-19T13:18:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T17:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2008-06-19T13:18:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T17:18:46","slug":"loneliest-guy-in-town-visits-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/19\/loneliest-guy-in-town-visits-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Loneliest guy in town visits Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1499\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Go ahead. Try to trip up the Maytag Repairman. He has an answer for everything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you actually handy? Can you even fix anything at all?&#8221; an intrepid reporter asks, grilling Clay Jackson, the actor who plays the longest-running advertising character in TV history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t need to,&#8221; Jackson answers without skipping a beat. Maytag appliances are so dependable, they hardly break down, he says, rehashing a line the company began using before he was born.<\/p>\n<p>It has been more than 40 years since the Maytag Repairman became TV&#8217;s &#8220;loneliest guy in town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Maytag Repairman was in Niagara Falls Wednesday for the induction ceremony of the &#8220;Dependability Hall of Fame,&#8221; a promotional idea the company&#8217;s marketing department dreamed up to celebrate its centennial&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Falls was the backdrop for the dependability hall of fame because the world-famous waterfall was named &#8220;Canada&#8217;s most dependable landmark.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Go ahead. Try to trip up the Maytag Repairman. He has an answer for everything. &#8220;Are you actually handy? Can you even fix anything at all?&#8221; an intrepid reporter asks, grilling Clay Jackson, the actor who plays the longest-running advertising character in TV history. &#8220;I don&#8217;t need to,&#8221; Jackson answers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}