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{"id":2463,"date":"2017-04-16T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2017-04-15T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T21:06:30","slug":"mmem-vol-13-issue-25-limits-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=2463","title":{"rendered":"MMeM, Vol.13 Issue 25 \u2013 Limits, Please!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #ff6600; float: right; font-size: 28px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 150px; text-align: center;\">But, <span style=\"color: brown;\">there <\/span>ARE <strong>limits. <\/strong><span style=\"color: brown;\">Pease!<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: khaki; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; float: left; font-family: times; font-size: 80px; line-height: 60px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 2px; border: 1px solid #bdb76b;\">H<\/span>ey, I&#8217;m all about humor. I get it. It&#8217;s &#8220;my bag&#8221;. At least, I try to make it my thing. Sure, I&#8217;ll be the first to admit it when I swing and miss. And boy, do I miss at times.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a slight difference between my misses and those of multinational multibillion dollar corporations who given recent negative news reports might want to walk more of a straight and narrow path.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to be fair we all know what Volkswagen was trying to do with their &#8220;Birds and the Bees&#8221; ad campaign. They were trying to show the value of a family sticking with Volkswagen through all of the stages of a family life-cycle while growing.<\/p>\n<p>The sticking point I have is, did they really need to SHOW the foggy windowed and shaking cars to &#8220;drive&#8221; that point home?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DZ3cDd-L1Qg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m not so sure that was required. Again, I&#8217;m a fan of making advertising entertaining. It&#8217;s something we all have to suffer through, so why not make it as enjoyable and entertaining as possible?<\/p>\n<p>But, there ARE limits. Please! I&#8217;m don&#8217;t even think Don Draper could have pitched this one. I have no idea how the ad men got this one past the higher ups at Volkswagen. But then again, they may have been preoccupied. Multiple puns, intended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, there ARE limits. Pease! Hey, I&#8217;m all about humor. I get it. It&#8217;s &#8220;my bag&#8221;. At least, I try to make it my thing. Sure, I&#8217;ll be the first to admit it when I swing and miss. And boy, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=2463\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MMeM, Vol.13 Issue 25 \u2013 Limits, Please!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-advertising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}