{"id":12028,"date":"2011-06-17T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=12028"},"modified":"2011-06-11T08:45:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:45:56","slug":"my-father-said-marry-a-wally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/my-father-said-marry-a-wally\/","title":{"rendered":"My Father said “Marry a Wally”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>During my childhood, my father worked hard to educate my brother and me on all the classic family sitcoms of the 1960’s: The Andy Griffith Show<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, F Troop<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, Mr. Ed<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, My Three Sons<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, etc, but all of his references of the Cleaver family fell on ignorant ears until a fateful Father’s Day weekend when TVLand finally introduced reruns of Leave it to Beaver<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by airing a whole-weekend-long marathon. I was hooked after the first episode and even popped in a VHS tape to record as many episodes as I could (just in case TVLand decided to be cruel and revoke my Cleaver family privileges after the weekend marathon wrapped up. Luckily they did not, and I have had about 15 blissful years of Leave it to Beaver<\/em><\/strong><\/a> reruns.)<\/p>\n

So I finally understood why my Dad always told me that he wanted me to marry “a Wally,” and I quite agreed for a long time (Tony Dow was super cute). Until I met my husband and realized that hanging out with “a Theodore” was a little bit more fun. I think my Dad is just content that I didn’t fall in love with “a Lumpy” or “an Eddie Haskall” (who, by the way, was the inspiration for the name of my brother’s high school punk band).<\/p>\n

My father will be out of town this Father’s Day, but I’m going to have to rent some Leave it to Beaver<\/em><\/strong><\/a> DVDs (from the library, of course!) to celebrate in spirit. I think I will be starting with Season Three<\/a> so I can watch a specific episode where the Beave loses a copy of Treasure Island<\/em><\/a> and lives in fear of a visit from the LIBRARY COPS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During my childhood, my father worked hard to educate my brother and me on all the classic family sitcoms of the 1960’s: The Andy Griffith Show, F Troop, Mr. Ed, My Three Sons, etc, but all of his references of the Cleaver family fell on ignorant ears until a fateful[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[1651,1652,1653],"class_list":["post-12028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds","category-reference","tag-fathers-day","tag-leave-it-to-beaver","tag-tony-dow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-380","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12028"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions\/12131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}