{"id":7126,"date":"2012-02-11T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=7126"},"modified":"2012-02-11T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T20:59:44","slug":"the-ugly-trend-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/the-ugly-trend-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly Trend Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uWrJgFjxlS0?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGuys, Valentine\u2019s Day is not that complicated. Give &#8212; and you shall receive.\u201d This is a new low. A Super Bowl ad basically pimped out the women of America for Valentine\u2019s Day. Buy her something pretty, and she\u2019ll put out. It\u2019s not what you\u2019d call a romantic proposition. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/feb\/10\/flowers-shouldnt-buy-you-love\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8212; Elizabeth Kantor<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I first took note of this ugly trend <strong><a title=\"What A Sick Message!\" href=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=5854\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a><\/strong>. As I commented at the time, in response to someone who defended the ad on the basis of its commercial success, it\u2019s not difficult to appeal to the crass and vulgar, but why do it? Our society is coarse enough already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGuys, Valentine\u2019s Day is not that complicated. Give &#8212; and you shall receive.\u201d This is a new low. A Super Bowl ad basically pimped out the women of America for Valentine\u2019s Day. Buy her something pretty, and she\u2019ll put out. It\u2019s not what you\u2019d call a romantic proposition. &#8212; Elizabeth &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"The Ugly Trend Continues - Politickles","description":"\u201cGuys, Valentine\u2019s Day is not that complicated. Give -- and you shall receive.\u201d This is a new low. A Super Bowl ad basically pimped out the women of America for"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2900,2902,2901,2898,3570,2897,2899,3568,3569,2304,2903],"class_list":["post-7126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bad-advertising","tag-bad-concept","tag-bad-copywriting","tag-dozen-roses","tag-give-and-you-shall-receive","tag-her-friends-will-be-jealous","tag-proflowers","tag-simon-g","tag-teleflora","tag-valentines-day","tag-virtually-eliminates-cheating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}