{"id":838,"date":"2004-04-06T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T18:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/gas_ad_wars\/"},"modified":"2004-04-06T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2004-04-06T18:37:17","slug":"gas_ad_wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/gas_ad_wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas Ad Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another political advertisement:<br \/>\n1910&#8217;s-quality black and white film played at fast speed.  Goofy silent-film era background music.<br \/>\nSUV driver fills up tank.   Checks price on pump display.  Wipes eyes with both hands.  Checks price again.  Strikes forehead with palm.  Pulls out handkerchief and wipes sweat from face.  Opens up back of truck and pulls wheelbarrow.  Loads wheelbarrow with cash and heads toward cashier (1920s German style).<br \/>\nText slide:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Some people have wacky ideas like taxing gasoline more so oil companies make more money.  That&#8217;s Dick Cheney.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/06\/politics\/06CHEN.html?ex=1396584000&#038;en=7edcc32708d09716&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">Dick Cheney<\/a> voice-over (or actual footage, if available):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Text slide:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bush\/Cheney:<br \/>\nWrong for Drivers<br \/>\nWrong for America<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New Slide:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The End.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again, include nothing which puts the quote in context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/gas_ad_wars\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Gas Ad Wars\"><p>Another political advertisement: 1910&#8217;s-quality black and white film played at fast speed. Goofy silent-film era background music. SUV driver fills up tank. Checks price on pump display. Wipes eyes with both hands. Checks price again. Strikes forehead with palm. Pulls out handkerchief and wipes sweat from face. Opens up back of truck and pulls wheelbarrow. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}