{"id":4140,"date":"2007-12-06T23:17:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T07:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/06\/best-xmas-commercials-so-far\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:43:41","slug":"best-xmas-commercials-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/06\/best-xmas-commercials-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Xmas Commercials (So Far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5702,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=-ZUoWnTKsFY&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5703,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=u-prMb6BdNs&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s only a top two, rather than a top ten or top three or any such thing (mostly because it&#8217;s so rare that commercials are actually fun that it&#8217;d be nearly impossible to get a list longer than two). However, here for your amusement are the top two commercials of this Christmas season, as chosen by Prairie and me.<\/p>\n<p>In second place: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-ZUoWnTKsFY\" title=\"YouTube: Staples Easy Button Christmas\">Staples Easy Button<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-ZUoWnTKsFY&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-ZUoWnTKsFY&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;(the envelope, please)&#8230;in first place&#8230;(<em>riiiiip<\/em>): Verizon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u-prMb6BdNs\" title=\"YouTube: Verizon: Pony\">Pony<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u-prMb6BdNs&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u-prMb6BdNs&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Prairie can&#8217;t even <em>think about<\/em> the pony commercial without giggling, let alone watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only a top two, rather than a top ten or top three or any such thing (mostly because it&#8217;s so rare that commercials are actually fun that it&#8217;d be nearly impossible to get a list longer than two). However, here for your amusement are the top two commercials of this Christmas season, as chosen by Prairie and me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[6,8],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-humor","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}