{"id":1671,"date":"2020-12-05T20:33:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T20:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2022-12-29T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:31:09","slug":"new-jersey-half-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/new-jersey-half-wit\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Half-Wit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Half-Wit &#8212; no, I don&#8217;t mean New Jersey residents. Not us (I am one) &#8212; we&#8217;re all geniuses. I mean the Half-wit style <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadsideamerica.com\/story\/37422\">muffler man<\/a> poised\/posed\/paused in front of the Intergalactic Pizza and Dracula&#8217;s Domain paintball range on Monmouth Road in Jackson Township, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Half-wit muffler men remind me of Mad Magazine&#8217;s Alfred E. Numan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/03\/a-boy-with-no-birthday-turns-sixty\/\">Interesting story about the inspiration for Alfred E Numan<\/a>. Worth noting that Dracula&#8217;s Domain has a Dracula muffler man, but he&#8217;s only around at Halloween time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Half-wit-2.jpg\" alt=\"A Half Wit \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Half-wit-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Half-wit-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Half-wit-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Half-wit-2-230x153.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Half-Wit &#8212; no, I don&#8217;t mean New Jersey residents. Not us (I am one) &#8212; we&#8217;re all geniuses. I mean the Half-wit style muffler man poised\/posed\/paused in front of the Intergalactic Pizza and Dracula&#8217;s Domain paintball range on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[72,101,64],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-roadside-attractions","tag-72","tag-giants","tag-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}