{"id":6467,"date":"2009-01-26T17:18:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6467"},"modified":"2009-01-26T17:18:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:38:12","slug":"the-joys-of-juxtaposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6467","title":{"rendered":"The Joys of Juxtaposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a <em>Battlestar Galactica <\/em>fan like I am, you&#8217;ll recognize instantly the scene I&#8217;m about to show you. It&#8217;s from just two episodes ago, so those of you still plowing through the season 2.5 DVDs, don&#8217;t read further.<\/p>\n<p>I post it not just because it&#8217;s awesome, but because the advertisement that follows is the worst-placed ad in the history of history:<\/p>\n<p align=center><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LW2_2ihIuzI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LW2_2ihIuzI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So full of fail. And that&#8217;s without even considering that the commercial is set to Rare Earth&#8217;s &#8220;I Just Want to Celebrate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/01\/worst-ad-placem.html\">Sully<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a Battlestar Galactica fan like I am, you&#8217;ll recognize instantly the scene I&#8217;m about to show you. It&#8217;s from just two episodes ago, so those of you still plowing through the season 2.5 DVDs, don&#8217;t read further. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}