{"id":805,"date":"2003-11-26T19:56:29","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T19:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/cynical-advertising\/"},"modified":"2003-11-26T19:56:29","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T19:56:29","slug":"cynical-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/cynical-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynical Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s only one thing worse than advertising, and that&#8217;s advertsing that pretends to be as cynical as <i>you<\/i>. Adverts that obviously want you to sit sneering at the set going &#8220;Yeah, huh, yeah,  I hate those sort of situations too&#8230;OK I&#8217;ll buy a packet of Tunes and demonstrate how cynical I am to the world&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisers achieve this with varying degrees of success ranging from hopeless ineptitude to shocking cluelessness.<\/p>\n<p>However successful any advertising agency is, they are all toejam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s only one thing worse than advertising, and that&#8217;s advertsing that pretends to be as cynical as you. Adverts that obviously want you to sit sneering at the set going &#8220;Yeah, huh, yeah, I hate those sort of situations too&#8230;OK I&#8217;ll buy a packet of Tunes and demonstrate how cynical I am to the world&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}