{"id":562,"date":"2010-10-08T10:54:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freddiegershon.com\/freddiesblog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2011-01-04T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T23:08:15","slug":"myrna-the-merchandiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freddiegershon.com\/freddiesblog\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Myrna-the-Merchandiser!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/freddiesblog\/regularPics\/MyrnaPortrait500x608.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For his 11th Huffington Post blog, Freddie notes the 50th anniversary of &#8220;The Flintstones&#8221; and pays tribute to his wife, Myrna&#8217;s, contribution to the merchandising that has become as iconic as the animated TV show.<\/p>\n<p>It was Myrna Gershon (n\u00e9e Masour), starting as a $65\/wk secretary, along with a whiz merchandiser named Hone$t Ed Justin, who came up with the concepts for Pebbles Cereal and, says Freddie, &#8220;unquestionably the most successful product in the field of non-prescription medicine ever created: &#8220;Flintstones (Children&#8217;s Chewable) Vitamins.&#8221; (B&amp;W above is of Ed &amp; Myrna at the moment of merchandising launch.)<\/p>\n<p>The rest, as they say, is history \u2014 not to mention current events. The cereal and the vitamins are still going strong, some 50 years later.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/freddie-gershon\/myrnaprehistoricjourneyto_b_754675.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red; font-size: 18pt;\">Click here<\/span><\/a><\/span> to see the HuffPost blog, entitled: Myrna&#8217;s Prehistoric Journey to &#8220;Yabba Dabba Do.&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For his 11th Huffington Post blog, Freddie notes the 50th anniversary of &#8220;The Flintstones&#8221; and pays tribute to his wife, Myrna&#8217;s, contribution to the merchandising that has become as iconic as the animated TV show. It was Myrna Gershon (n\u00e9e Masour), starting as a $65\/wk secretary, along with a whiz merchandiser named Hone$t Ed Justin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70teA-94","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddiegershon.com\/freddiesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddiegershon.com\/freddiesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddiegershon.com\/freddiesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddiegershon.com\/freddiesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddiegershon.com\/freddiesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/freddiegershon.com\/freddiesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/freddiegershon.com\/freddiesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddiegershon.com\/freddiesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddiegershon.com\/freddiesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddiegershon.com\/freddiesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}