{"id":1147,"date":"2025-01-24T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:15:10","slug":"apples-iconic-1984-super-bowl-ad-aired-41-years-ago-this-week-how-it-almost-didnt-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.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 src=\"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/apple-ad-1984.jpg\" \/><\/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 ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}