{"id":1076,"date":"2025-01-24T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:20:12","slug":"apples-iconic-1984-super-bowl-ad-aired-41-years-ago-this-week-how-it-almost-didnt-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/apples-iconic-1984-super-bowl-ad-aired-41-years-ago-this-week-how-it-almost-didnt-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s iconic \u20181984\u2019 Super Bowl ad aired 41 years ago this week; how it almost didn\u2019t happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/apple-ad-1984.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1200\"><\/div>\n<p>On this day 41 years ago, Apple\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\">Macintosh<\/a> went on sale, just two days after being introduced to the world during a commercial break in the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. Although \u201c1984\u201d became a cultural phenomenon and a watershed moment for product launches, Apple\u2019s Board of Directors was against it from the start. Here\u2019s how the legendary ad almost didn\u2019t air\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"apple-history,mac,steve-jobs\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"859727\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/01\/24\/apples-iconic-1984-super-bowl-ad-aired-on-this-day-41-years-ago\/#more-859727\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day 41 years ago, Apple\u2019s first Macintosh went on sale, just two days after being introduced to the world during a commercial break <a href=\"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/apples-iconic-1984-super-bowl-ad-aired-41-years-ago-this-week-how-it-almost-didnt-happen\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}