{"id":472,"date":"2015-03-04T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=472"},"modified":"2015-03-04T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T16:40:10","slug":"skymall-isnt-dead-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Skymall Isn&#8217;t Dead After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I posted about the death of Skymall, how they were going out of business and depriving us of the opportunity to buy great items like these Orbit Wheels:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Awesome Stuff&#039;s Orbit Wheel Tutorial\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CLUf81XxHUE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>or these pipe covers:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_640x430\/public\/the-perfect-coverup.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or the ultimate travel pillow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/fashion\/daily\/2015\/03\/04\/04-skymall-back.w245.h368.2x.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But sadly, they are coming back under new ownership and will be focusing more on more traditional items \u00a0 \u00a0 The new owner (Scott Jordan) says the focus will be on items that are &#8220;clever, but not kitschy.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0WHAT? \u00a0WE NEED KITSCHY. \u00a0 Clever is everywhere. \u00a0 I actually flew 4 times last year just so I could thumb through the SkyMall magazine and look at items I would never buy.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, I guess now if I want to buy Star Wars Chopsticks, I&#8217;ll just have to go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadgetsandgear.com\/star-wars-light-up-chopsticks.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ep.yimg.com\/ay\/yhst-54334793715728\/star-wars-light-up-chopsticks-57.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More about the SkyMall story can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/technology\/1113334458\/skymall-is-back-but-not-really-021515\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I posted about the death of Skymall, how they were going out of business and depriving us of the opportunity to buy great items like these Orbit Wheels: or these pipe covers: or the ultimate travel pillow. But sadly, they are coming back under new ownership and will be focusing more <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=472\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-companies"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}