{"id":1061,"date":"2008-11-02T17:38:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T22:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2008-11-02T17:38:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T22:38:26","slug":"insidious-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2008\/11\/02\/insidious-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Insidious advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this the other night and instantly thought it was more insidious than any campaign spot I&#8217;ve seen this year &#8211; and <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> saying something.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KVsgXPt564Q&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KVsgXPt564Q&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A big part of my diet this year has been kicking the high fructose corn syrup right off the menu.  I have no doubt that it&#8217;s a big part of why I&#8217;ve dropped as much weight as I have.  But this commercial is just off-the-scale insidious: because this guy <em>can&#8217;t think of anything wrong with it<\/em>, it is therefore by definition just hunky-dory?  You know, I probably couldn&#8217;t, on absolutely no notice, cough up detailed studies about why smoking is bad for you from memory, or instantly recall a full list of the side-effects of taking heroin.  This doesn&#8217;t mean, however, that these things are &#8220;just fine in moderation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think all the Cold War psych ops types moved to Madison Avenue when there was no more Soviet Union to topple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this the other night and instantly thought it was more insidious than any campaign spot I&#8217;ve seen this year &#8211; and that&#8217;s saying something. A big part of my diet this year has been kicking the high fructose corn syrup right off the menu. I have no doubt that it&#8217;s a big part of why I&#8217;ve dropped as much weight as I have. But this commercial is just off-the-scale insidious: because this guy can&#8217;t think of anything wrong with it, it is therefore by definition just hunky-dory? You know, I probably couldn&#8217;t, on absolutely no notice, cough up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}