{"id":88,"date":"2003-10-28T15:11:20","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T20:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/ditsy_blondes\/"},"modified":"2003-10-28T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2003-10-28T20:11:20","slug":"ditsy_blondes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/ditsy_blondes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditsy Blondes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is being (or playing) a dimwitted blonde a marketing boon?  This <i>USA Today<\/i> article suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/2003-10-27-blondes_x.htm\">it is for Jessica Simpson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Simpson is the latest in the &#8220;proud&#8221; dumb-blonde tradition: She joins such icons as Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Suzanne Somers&#8217; Chrissy on Three&#8217;s Company and Anna Nicole Smith. Carol Channing made a career out of playing a dumb blonde. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t have to be bright,&#8221; she said in an interview in Ladies Home Journal in 1955 &#8220;All I had to do was be blonde.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s working for Simpson. Last week she met with execs from Chicken of the Sea, who are courting her as a new spokesblonde. The just-wrapped 10-week run of Newlyweds was such a reality-TV hit \ufffd the show follows Simpson, 23, and her husband, Nick Lachey, 29 \ufffd that a new season started taping Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article notes that &#8220;men have long equated blondes and dimwittedness with sexiness.&#8221;  True, though as a male I&#8217;ve never completely understood why.  Sure the dumb blonde thing is cute and fun for a while, but it quickly gets old.<br \/>\nAs I see things, brains enhance beauty.  But maybe that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/ditsy_blondes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Ditsy Blondes\"><p>Is being (or playing) a dimwitted blonde a marketing boon? This USA Today article suggests that it is for Jessica Simpson: Simpson is the latest in the &#8220;proud&#8221; dumb-blonde tradition: She joins such icons as Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Suzanne Somers&#8217; Chrissy on Three&#8217;s Company and Anna Nicole Smith. Carol Channing made a career out [&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-88","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\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}