{"id":3476,"date":"2007-09-12T09:58:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T16:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2007-09-12T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T16:58:13","slug":"kevin-meuller-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/12\/kevin-meuller-not-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Meuller, Not So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a non-commercial commercial I heard on NPR yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last year, 6,000 teens were killed in drunk driving accidents.  We at Allstate Insurance think that&#8217;s 6,000 teens too many.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not bad at communicating the message &#8220;we care,&#8221; I guess.  But truly great ads are thought-provoking.  If they had instead said &#8220;we think that&#8217;s 5,992 teens too many,&#8221; the listener would really start wondering about the other eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a non-commercial commercial I heard on NPR yesterday: Last year, 6,000 teens were killed in drunk driving accidents. We at Allstate Insurance think that&#8217;s 6,000 teens too many. Not bad at communicating the message &#8220;we care,&#8221; I guess. But truly great ads are thought-provoking. If they had instead said &#8220;we think that&#8217;s 5,992 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}