{"id":911,"date":"2004-02-11T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/02\/makes-me-want-to-drink-r-c.html"},"modified":"2004-02-11T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-11T21:31:00","slug":"makes-me-want-to-drink-r-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/02\/makes-me-want-to-drink-r-c.html","title":{"rendered":"Makes Me Want to Drink R.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think Coke and Pepsi are in competition on who has the most obnoxious ads. The Pepsi one bothers me on a &#8220;how can you defame a musical icon&#8221; level while the Coke one is just downright offensive. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepsi.com\/ads_and_history\/index.php\">Pepsi ad<\/a> (called &#8220;Crossroads&#8221;) I refer to is the young Jimi Hendrix trying to decide between buying a drink from a  Pepsi machine, which is by a guitar store, and a Coke machine, which is by an accordion store. Did the Hendrix estate have to give permission for this? How can they have sold Jimi out like that? And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coke.com\/usa\/tvcommercials\/index.html\">Coke one<\/a> (it&#8217;s not yet posted on their site) has Penelope Cruz bingeing on food and Coke in a restaurant kitchen. She comes out to a waiting table of people and turns down a tiny plate of food because she&#8217;s watching what she eats. I&#8217;m sorry, are we back on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/gone.html\">Tara<\/a>? I can&#8217;t at all figure out the message they are trying to send here. Are they trying to promote bulemia? Am I the only one who is infuriated by these ads?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Coke and Pepsi are in competition on who has the most obnoxious ads. The Pepsi one bothers me on a &#8220;how can you defame a musical icon&#8221; level while the Coke one is just downright offensive. The Pepsi ad (called &#8220;Crossroads&#8221;) I refer to is the young Jimi Hendrix trying to decide between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}