{"id":123,"date":"2008-09-05T21:18:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T02:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/condescending-rich-guys\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T21:18:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T02:18:05","slug":"condescending-rich-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/condescending-rich-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Condescending Rich Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/webscout\/2008\/09\/seinfeld-and-ga.html\">Maria Russo, in the <em>LA Times<\/em>, totally nails what&#8217;s wrong with Microsoft&#8217;s first Seinfeld-fueled commercial<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let&#8217;s start with the premise of these two famous rich people out discount shoe shopping. Ha, ha! They don&#8217;t <em>really<\/em> have to shop at Payless like the half a million people who lost their jobs this year.<\/p>\n<p>Gates and Seinfeld may both be schlumpy dressers, but their regular-guy qualities stop there. Neither is the Warren Buffett kind of rich, the frugal sort who knows the value of a dollar and doesn&#8217;t put himself above the working man (or so we believe about Buffett). Instead the ad seems to be somehow making light of bargain-shopping, as if it&#8217;s just a lark for these guys, or some kind of joke that we&#8217;re not quite in on. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Russo, in the LA Times, totally nails what&#8217;s wrong with Microsoft&#8217;s first Seinfeld-fueled commercial Let&#8217;s start with the premise of these two famous rich people out discount shoe shopping. Ha, ha! They don&#8217;t really have to shop at Payless like the half a million people who lost their jobs this year. Gates and Seinfeld [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[166,96],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-quotes","tag-advertising","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}