{"id":125,"date":"2005-04-15T23:49:29","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T04:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/15\/thatll-get-their-attention\/"},"modified":"2005-04-15T23:50:50","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T04:50:50","slug":"thatll-get-their-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/15\/thatll-get-their-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;ll get their attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wowthisisslow.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/american-lung-association.html\"><em>I&#8217;ll explain it when you are older<\/em><\/a> pointed me at this devestating (in the most literal sense) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardsmag.com\/screeningroom\/commercials\/1635\/\">smoking cessation ad<\/a>.  <strong>Be warned<\/strong>, though, that this is pretty in your face (in the best sort of way).  I actually made squeaky &#8220;Oh, my god!&#8221; noises the first time I watched it, and still wince on subsequent viewings.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t ever see this being shown on television, especially not during kids&#8217; programming when it could really make a difference.  It would be so terribly American, however, if networks would show this but shun <a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/03\/08\/you-should-definitely-check-out-the-ucc-ad\/\">the UCC ad<\/a>.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll explain it when you are older pointed me at this devestating (in the most literal sense) smoking cessation ad. Be warned, though, that this is pretty in your face (in the best sort of way). I actually made squeaky &#8220;Oh, my god!&#8221; noises the first time I watched it, and still wince on subsequent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/15\/thatll-get-their-attention\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That&#8217;ll get their attention&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-21","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":79,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/03\/08\/you-should-definitely-check-out-the-ucc-ad\/","url_meta":{"origin":125,"position":0},"title":"You should definitely check out the UCC ad","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"8 Mar 05","format":false,"excerpt":"In wandering around the web today I stumbled across several blogs that had banner ads promoting a United Church of Christ (UCC) ad that NBC and CBS have refused to air. I ignored it the first few times (hard to imagine why I'd care about some church's ad), but finally\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":453,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/02\/09\/i-just-bought-a-snickers-bar\/","url_meta":{"origin":125,"position":1},"title":"I just bought a Snickers bar","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"9 Feb 07","format":false,"excerpt":"It's my small way of thanking them for their hi-bloody-larious Super Bowl ad. Things that amaze me: That some people want to ban this ad. That it occurred to me to look for this on YouTube. (I'm not so out of it!) That it was there. (OK, that didn't really\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":500,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/03\/02\/u-of-phoenix-advertising-on-scienceblogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":125,"position":2},"title":"U of Phoenix advertising on ScienceBlogs?!?","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"2 Mar 07","format":false,"excerpt":"So I was browsing Pharyngula when I should have been getting some lunch, and was saddened to see an ad for the University of Phoenix there next to PeeZed's lucid and fiery prose. 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