{"id":15,"date":"2007-05-12T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/advertising-there-can-be-only-one\/"},"modified":"2010-07-29T20:39:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T01:39:40","slug":"advertising-there-can-be-only-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/2007\/05\/12\/advertising-there-can-be-only-one\/","title":{"rendered":"There Can Be Only One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a little blurb in a newsletter from the most hated company on Earth, yours and mine, Rogers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thousands of movies. Hundreds of shows. Tons of free programming. And instant access to it all \u2014 On Demand only from Rogers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m sure that<em> somewhere<\/em> in the world there is probably at least one other company that provides those things. If you\u2019re going to bandy around an absolute term like \u201conly\u201d, then you should be damn sure that you really<em> are<\/em> the only one. Then again, they\u2019ll probably just take what they already have and throw in something exclusively unique to themselves like a brand name and say \u201conly\u201d again. In fact that\u2019s probably what they (deceptively) meant, that the products known as \u201cOn Demand\u201d is only from Rogers\u2014even though it may very well not be; I doubt that they bothered to check.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026blah blah blah, Rogers On Demand\u2014only from Rogers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, duh!<\/p>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/tag\/advertising\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advertising<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a little blurb in a newsletter from the most hated company on Earth, yours and mine, Rogers: Thousands of movies. Hundreds of shows. Tons of free programming. And instant access to it all \u2014 On Demand only from Rogers. Well, I&#8217;m sure that somewhere in the world there is probably at least one other [&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":[15],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advertising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","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=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}