{"id":4603,"date":"2010-07-08T23:25:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T04:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2010-07-08T23:25:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T04:25:33","slug":"make-it-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/make-it-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Make It Stop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4604\" href=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/08\/make-it-stop\/alltell\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4604\" title=\"Alltell\" src=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/alltell.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><strong>I suppose with something as ubiquitous as cell phone service, the goal for advertisers would be to create a commercial that the consumer will remember.<\/strong> Or is it &#8216;never forget&#8217;? Joining the ranks of such annoying, unforgettable classics as the Energizer Bunny and all those 1-800-Collect spots with Carrot Top are the Alltel boys! Like the redundant chorus from the Real McCoy&#8217;s &#8220;Come And Get Your Love&#8221; this series of commercials tortures me. In one recent spot, I actually laughed out loud (rather maniacally) when I saw all the polo-shirted geeks in the bucket of a garbage truck, facing impending doom as the vertically-coiffed Chad smiled on. I thought it was the end. False! Apparently the ratings of Alltel&#8217;s Chadvertising campaign are much too high to snuff out. In other words&#8230; it&#8217;s effective. Gah! The agony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose with something as ubiquitous as cell phone service, the goal for advertisers would be to create a commercial that the consumer will remember. Or is it &#8216;never forget&#8217;? Joining the ranks of such annoying, unforgettable classics as the Energizer Bunny and all those 1-800-Collect spots with Carrot Top are the Alltel boys! Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-1cf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}