{"id":258,"date":"2005-01-25T00:13:53","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T05:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=258"},"modified":"2005-01-25T09:01:37","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T14:01:37","slug":"create-a-buzz-even-if-it-offends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Create a buzz, even if it offends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/photos\/commercials\/vwpolo.asp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/vwpolo2.jpg\" alt=\"vw_polo_suicide_bomber\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These truly are the last days, when a company like Volkswagen can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/photos\/commercials\/vwpolo.asp\">release a viral marketing ad that evokes rather strong, controversial images (and yet tries to be funny) to sell a product (the VW Polo)<\/a>, and then disclaim all liability in its production.  Even going so far as to ruffle their feathers and threaten to sue.<\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/\">Snopes<\/a>, I don&#8217;t buy it one bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW and &#8220;viral marketing.&#8221;  Consider scaredpoet.com &#8220;infected.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}