{"id":136819,"date":"2018-06-22T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T03:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136819"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T00:26:04","slug":"what-is-it-about-insurance-commercials-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/22\/what-is-it-about-insurance-commercials-these-days.html","title":{"rendered":"What is it about insurance commercials these days?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swear to God, the funniest commercials on TV right now, and for a while, are from Geico &#8212; with Progressive and Farmers trailing closely behind.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m not sure why that&#39;s the case (at least to my aesthetic), but as I&#39;m FFing through commercials on the DVR, those are the ones that make me stop and watch.<\/p>\n<p>GEICO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GEICO\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GEICO<\/a><br \/>Progressive: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/progressive\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/progressive<\/a><br \/>Farmers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/farmersinsurance\" class=\"ot-anchor\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/farmersinsurance<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/85SvVn3cpl0' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Z6GJT4jukTc'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear to God, the funniest commercials on TV right now, and for a while, are from Geico &#8212; with Progressive and Farmers trailing closely behind. I&#39;m not sure why that&#39;s the case (at least to my aesthetic), but as I&#39;m FFing through commercials on the DVR, those are the ones that make me stop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/22\/what-is-it-about-insurance-commercials-these-days.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is it about insurance commercials these days?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-commercial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132483,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/japanese-commercials-of-2016.html","url_meta":{"origin":136819,"position":0},"title":"Japanese Commercials of 2016","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Jan-17 11:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I have no way of knowing if these are in fact the best commercials from Japan in 2016, but they are certainly ... entertaining. 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