{"id":9470,"date":"2026-02-20T08:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/?p=9470"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:18:02","slug":"the-friday-fives-394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/?p=9470","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Fives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s-l1600.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s-l1600.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s-l1600.png 720w, https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/s-l1600-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. What&#8217;s a fad\/trend from the early 2020s that faded so quickly you can barely remember it?<br \/><\/strong>Spotify used to have this weird car gadget that would plug into your car, but that was dropped about the time that streaming music apps became ubiquitous,s and they dropped the product so fast you barely saw it coming., <br \/><br \/>2. What&#8217;s a fad\/ trend from the 1990s that faded so quickly you can barely remember it? <br \/><br \/>Nextel phones with the Direct Connect walkie-talkie.  Those were pretty cool, and I&#8217;d love to have a way to bring that technology back, but they got bullied out of their bandwidth. <br \/><br \/>3. What was that thing that was such a big deal from your high school years?<br \/><br \/> Blow-dried hair and silkie  disco shirts<br \/><strong><br \/>4. What were all the cool kids doing in your middle school years?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listening to music on the new cool tech known as cassettes. <br \/><br \/><strong>5. What fad\/trend were your parents into when you were a kid <\/strong>that, looking back, caused you to say, &#8220;Man<strong>, those guys are weird<\/strong>?<br \/><br \/>They were really into the Jaycees &#8211; like it was their entire life and social scene.  They went to conferences and conventions all the time and participated in locally sponsored events &#8211; there was always something.  Obsessed. <br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. What&#8217;s a fad\/trend from the early 2020s that faded so quickly you can barely remember it?Spotify used to have this weird car gadget that would plug into your car, but that was dropped about the time that streaming music apps became ubiquitous,s and they dropped the product so fast you barely saw it coming., &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/?p=9470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Friday Fives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-fives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9476,"href":"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions\/9476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majikwah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}