{"id":49475,"date":"2015-02-02T18:18:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/02\/dude-that-ad-was-such-a-bummer.html"},"modified":"2015-02-02T18:18:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:18:40","slug":"dude-that-ad-was-such-a-bummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/02\/dude-that-ad-was-such-a-bummer.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Dude, that ad was such a bummer&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#39;t watch the Super Bowl yesterday, but this Nationwide ad seems to be generating the most press. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#39;s because I get safety reminders at work all the time, but I don&#39;t see anything all that outrageous about it. And the fact that it jarred some folk with its message means it did its job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/super-bowl-2015-nationwide-responds-to-outrage-after-dead-boy-ad-shocks-viewers-10017625.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/mw1VKW5CJtJHoZzDv9C6rJqI5eBEd_9qLJJPa_MzIM4aVykl-VnH7ABIO84RYqDoIXK3pu6_Xqih1RdCwpO4V_FiPgTEJhdqb63moSIXKqz7DBFLqPlWlosOHDVzLnrZ1M0W3aGDDdERVSQTdpuAxiQ5rhs=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/super-bowl-2015-nationwide-responds-to-outrage-after-dead-boy-ad-shocks-viewers-10017625.html'>People were really freaked out by this harrowing Super Bowl commercial<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nViewers watching the Super Bowl were left shocked after a &ldquo;buzz-killing&rdquo; commercial about a dead little boy aired during an ad-break.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/H5ToLvoYFUe'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#39;t watch the Super Bowl yesterday, but this Nationwide ad seems to be generating the most press. Maybe it&#39;s because I get safety reminders at work all the time, but I don&#39;t see anything all that outrageous about it. And the fact that it jarred some folk with its message means it did its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/02\/dude-that-ad-was-such-a-bummer.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Dude, that ad was such a bummer&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49922,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/probably-not-the-ad-campaign-they-would-run-today.html","url_meta":{"origin":49475,"position":0},"title":"Probably not the ad campaign they would run today","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Mar-15 8:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"(h\/t +J. 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