{"id":1017,"date":"2017-02-06T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2017-02-06T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:30:22","slug":"super-bowl-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2017\/02\/06\/super-bowl-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Bowl LI returned to using Roman numerals after a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/2016\/2\/7\/10830960\/nfl-roman-numerals-super-bowl-50-what-happened\" target=\"_blank\">one-year hiatus<\/a>. It marked the fourth year of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2014\/02\/03\/super-bowl-commercials\/\" target=\"_blank\">end of my 20-year tradition of taking notes about Super Bowl commercials<\/a>. Today, however, I&#8217;m continuing another long practice: checking out the <a href=\"http:\/\/admeter.usatoday.com\/results\/2017\" target=\"_blank\"><em>USA Today<\/em> Super Bowl Ad Meter<\/a>. I was happy to see that two of the ads with strong sociological themes did extremely well, landing in the top five most popular commercials: Audi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/admeter.usatoday.com\/commercials\/daughter\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Daughter&#8221;<\/a> at #3, and Budweiser&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/admeter.usatoday.com\/commercials\/born-the-hard-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Born the Hard Way&#8221;<\/a> at #4. &#8220;Born the Hard Way&#8221; commented on current U.S. immigration debates, as did 84 Lumber&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/admeter.usatoday.com\/commercials\/the-journey-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Journey Begins&#8221;<\/a> (29th of 66 commercials rated.). &#8220;The Journey Begins&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/84-lumber-website-swamped-after-poignant-super-bowl-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\">generating lots of interest\u00a0to see the completion of the journey started in the ad<\/a>.\u00a0Hopefully good discussions will ensue after folks watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journey84.com\" target=\"_blank\">entire 84 Lumber commercial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Bowl LI returned to using Roman numerals after a one-year hiatus. It marked the fourth year of the end of my 20-year tradition of taking notes about Super Bowl commercials. Today, however, I&#8217;m continuing another long practice: checking out the USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter. I was happy to see that two of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22214,3504],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-media-culture","tag-social-structure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}