{"id":7464,"date":"2009-04-27T00:20:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T07:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2009-04-27T00:20:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T07:40:32","slug":"open-thread-elephant-and-dog-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7464","title":{"rendered":"Open thread: Elephant and dog edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use this thread to discuss whatever. Self-linking is as welcome as hot chocolate on a cold day.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Okay, the smarmy news guy is annoying (especially at the end, when he gets all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/p\/paul+mccartney\/ebony+ivory_20105526.html\">Paul McCartney<\/a> on us).  But I nonetheless found this story irresistible.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cBtFTF2ii7U&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cBtFTF2ii7U&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdnphotooftheday.com\/2009\/04\/1017\">Advertising photography, circa 1962<\/a>. Then as now, the most common strategy seems to be: <em>show happy thin white people possessing product, &#8220;good life&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Also: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pajiba.com\/trailers\/paper-hearts-trailer.php\">trailer for Charlyne Yi\u2019s <em>Paper Hearts<\/em><\/a>, a semi-not-really documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pajiba.com\/trailers\/paper-hearts-trailer.php\">is <em>astonishingly <\/em>cute-looking<\/a> (much discussion of this in the comments there). <a href=\"http:\/\/readingtoomuch.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/21\/links-of-interest-2\/\">Via<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use this thread to discuss whatever. Self-linking is as welcome as hot chocolate on a cold day. * * * Okay, the smarmy news guy is annoying (especially at the end, when he gets all Paul McCartney on us). But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7464\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}