{"id":276,"date":"2008-10-22T15:33:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T20:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=276"},"modified":"2008-10-22T15:33:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T20:33:58","slug":"attack-ads-and-closet-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/10\/22\/attack-ads-and-closet-space\/","title":{"rendered":"attack ads and closet space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this politically-flavored ad in New York City this weekend and it struck me as unusual.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_277\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-277\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/files\/2008\/10\/palinstoragead1-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Advertisement for a storage company\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-277\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advertisement for a storage company<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIn an election year, we can expect to see many product advertisements that utilize political imagery or poke fun at political culture.  Along the same block, I saw a display featuring cardboard cutouts of the two presidential candidates bearing various wines and spirits.  But most of these ads, do not take a political perspective or mount a critique.  They tend to be of the &#8220;whether you support Obama or McCain&#8221; variety.    This ad for a storage company make a very clear criticism of Sarah Palin &#8212; albeit on experiential and not policy grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Is this actually unusual?  Is it permissible because NYC is a fairly liberal place?  Or perhaps because Obama-Biden are such clear frontrunner?  What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this politically-flavored ad in New York City this weekend and it struck me as unusual. In an election year, we can expect to see many product advertisements that utilize political imagery or poke fun at political culture. Along the same block, I saw a display featuring cardboard cutouts of the two presidential candidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[594],"tags":[750,85,683],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama-election-politics-president-clinton-conflict-consensus","tag-advertising","tag-politics","tag-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}