{"id":2151,"date":"2000-08-01T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2000-08-01T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2000\/08\/01\/is-pokemon-dead-or-not\/"},"modified":"2000-08-01T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2000-08-01T14:44:00","slug":"is-pokemon-dead-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/is-pokemon-dead-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Pokemon Dead or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A7091-2000Jul30.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in yesterday&#8217;s paper discussing the question of whether the Pokemon fad is over.  The main argument of the article is that the second Pokemon opened to a third place box office showing and that sales are slower than they were last year at the same time. On the other hand, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toymania.com\/news\/messages\/750.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Raving Toy Maniac<\/a> a July 20th article from the Associated Press stated that Hasbro reported Pokemon as one of the company&#8217;s product lines that saw falling second quarter earnings, but while it is true that the Star Wars and Furby lines both also saw a decrease in sales over the second quarter, the AP now reports that Pokemon products actually saw an increase in sales over the same period a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has an article in yesterday&#8217;s paper discussing the question of whether the Pokemon fad is over. The main argument of the article is that the second Pokemon opened to a third place box office showing and that sales are slower than they were last year at the same time. On the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}