{"id":14,"date":"2007-05-27T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/blog\/2007\/05\/27\/television-commercials-don%e2%80%99t-beg-the-poor-to-be-sponsers\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T16:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T21:47:30","slug":"television-commercials-dont-beg-the-poor-to-be-sponsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/2007\/05\/27\/television-commercials-dont-beg-the-poor-to-be-sponsers\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Beg the Poor To Be Sponsers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t stand that commercial for the Christian Children\u2019s fund with that old guy with the beard.  I despise his accusatory tone that implies that we are bad people unless we sponsor a kid.  Worse still, I despise that the commercial runs on basic cable.  Why don\u2019t they air it on a premium channel like ShowTime, HBO, or PlayBoy instead?  It is like a bum hanging around the unemployment line begging for money.  Get lost!  If I had money, I wouldn\u2019t be here; go beg at the Mercedes dealership.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/tag\/commercials\/\" rel=\"tag\">Commercials<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/tag\/television\/\" rel=\"tag\">Television<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t stand that commercial for the Christian Children\u2019s fund with that old guy with the beard. I despise his accusatory tone that implies that we are bad people unless we sponsor a kid. Worse still, I despise that the commercial runs on basic cable. Why don\u2019t they air it on a premium channel like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,4],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commercials","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}