{"id":43004,"date":"2025-11-25T02:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=43004"},"modified":"2025-11-25T02:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:40:58","slug":"theyre-not-dolls-theyre-babies-how-the-cabbage-patch-kids-caused-a-near-riot-in-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43004","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They\u2019re not dolls, they&#8217;re babies!&#8217;: How the Cabbage Patch Kids caused a near-riot in the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/p0mj14h3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"160\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Xavier Roberts&#8217; cuddly-toy business grew into a billion-dollar empire in the space of a few years. Why did these dolls have Christmas shoppers scrambling to buy them in 1983?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20251121-how-the-cabbage-patch-kids-caused-a-near-riot\">&#8216;They\u2019re not dolls, they&#8217;re babies!&#8217;: How the Cabbage Patch Kids caused a near-riot in the 1980s<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>the labubus of our time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier Roberts&#8217; cuddly-toy business grew into a billion-dollar empire in the space&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2178,978],"class_list":["post-43004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-fads","tag-toys","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43007,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43004\/revisions\/43007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}