{"id":5989,"date":"2020-01-20T03:42:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T11:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2020-01-20T03:42:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T11:42:45","slug":"was-robin-packin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/was-robin-packin\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Robin Packin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time last year, the <em>Hollywood Museum <\/em>hosted <strong><em>Batman \u201966<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 the first-ever retrospective of the classic television series, <strong><em>Batman<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; One of the notable people at that event was the <em>Boy Wonder <\/em>himself, <strong>Burt Ward<\/strong>.&nbsp; Last week, Ward revealed that the <em>ABC<\/em> brass were quite upset over the size of his\u2026er\u2026utility belt.&nbsp; \u201cThey thought that Robin had a very large bulge for television.\u201d&nbsp; On the big screen, <strong>Chris O\u2019Donnell<\/strong>\u2019s was just right.&nbsp; Ward was sent to a doctor who prescribed him some pills that would \u201cshrink me up\u201d.&nbsp; He took them for three days, but then worried there could be long-term fertility effects.&nbsp; \u201cI stopped doing that and I just used my cape to cover it.\u201d&nbsp; That cape not only did the trick, it raised a pretty penny.&nbsp; Last month, the costumes worn by Batman and Robin in the series were sold for a record amount of $832,000 for the pair.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure the fact that Robin\u2019s costume was stretched out of shape only helped the sale.&nbsp; I know it helped me through some hard times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time last year, the Hollywood Museum hosted Batman \u201966 \u2013 the first-ever retrospective of the classic television series, Batman.&nbsp; One of the notable people at that event was the Boy Wonder himself, Burt Ward.&nbsp; Last week, Ward revealed that the ABC brass were quite upset over the size of his\u2026er\u2026utility belt.&nbsp; \u201cThey thought that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5990,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}