{"id":2077,"date":"2009-10-17T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2009-10-17T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T17:38:14","slug":"captain-lou-albano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/17\/captain-lou-albano\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Captain&#8221; Lou Albano&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beloved pro-wrestling figure died at his home Wednesday morning. He was 76&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/captain-lou-photo.jpg\" alt=\"captain-lou-photo.jpg\" height=\"342\" width=\"271\" \/>(&#8220;I was also a Proctologist&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Best known to the &#8217;80s mainstream as the man who played Cyndi Lauper&#8217;s dad in the video for &#8220;Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,&#8221; Albano was instantly recognizable for his unkempt beard, rubber-band accessories, garish outfits and boisterous personality in and out of the ring. Oh yeah, and he was known for looking like a drunk hobo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/captain-lou-action-figure.jpg\" alt=\"captain-lou-action-figure.jpg\" height=\"314\" width=\"268\" \/>(Comes with real food in his pocket)<\/p>\n<p>After news of his death hit, rubberband sales dipped sharply. I guess Girls Just Don&#8217;t Wanna Have Fun anymore. The good news about him was that he was the only adult I knew who looked dapper in sweat pants, other than my grandfather&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have a day!<\/p>\n<div id=\"bolge-110960431\" class=\"bolge-after-content bolge-entity-placement\"><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"44284-1271501652\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" data-protocol=\"https\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beloved pro-wrestling figure died at his home Wednesday morning. He was 76&#8230; (&#8220;I was also a Proctologist&#8221;) Best known to the &#8217;80s mainstream as the man who played Cyndi Lauper&#8217;s dad in the video for &#8220;Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,&#8221; Albano was instantly recognizable for his unkempt beard, rubber-band accessories, garish outfits and boisterous personality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-comedy-satire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}