{"id":18522,"date":"2010-12-22T10:02:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=18522"},"modified":"2013-11-23T03:43:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:43:52","slug":"support-the-troops-shop-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/22\/support-the-troops-shop-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Support the Troops? Shop Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n(NOTE: I am writing this post on January 2nd, 2010… almost a year before it will publish.\u00a0 As I write it… I wonder if the wars in Iraq and Afganistan will still be ongoing.)<\/p>\n

Last year Christmastime, Gin and Tacos<\/a> highlighted this Walmart commercial:<\/p>\n

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He writes:<\/p>\n

That commercial has nothing to do with Wal-Mart. It tells you nothing about its products, services, prices, or policies. It’s just sentimental pap, a cheap effort to bypass logic and score points on an emotional level.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, Walmart is attempting to associate\u00a0its company with the admiration inspired by\u00a0those risking their lives in war.\u00a0 Why this doesn’t result in a strong and consequential backlash is lost on me.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(NOTE: I am writing this post on January 2nd, 2010… almost a year before it will publish.\u00a0 As I write it… I wonder if the wars in Iraq and Afganistan will still be ongoing.) Last year Christmastime, Gin and Tacos highlighted this Walmart commercial: He writes: That commercial has nothing to do with Wal-Mart. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254,23703,276,309],"class_list":["post-18522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-marketing","tag-nationalismpatriotism","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18522"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59362,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522\/revisions\/59362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}