{"id":523,"date":"2002-04-17T00:42:36","date_gmt":"2002-04-17T08:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/04\/17\/thats-icky\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:03:41","slug":"thats-icky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/04\/17\/thats-icky\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s icky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16277,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pds.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/stores\\\/0911.cgi?prod=frontpage.html&amp;uid=2OcsOQAA1019029114&amp;company=0911\\\/&amp;msrc=&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>I&#8217;m actually in the midst of making an entry right now, but I had to say something about this. I&#8217;m currently using the Opera webbrowser, which uses built-in banner advertising to generate revenue to keep the software free. I can live with that, as Opera is a very good web browser (and when I have the money, I can purchase it to get rid of the banner), but the banner I&#8217;m currently getting is really annoying me.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than car, credit, or casino ads, I&#8217;m currently getting a banner that starts with a picture of the American flag. The next frame says, &#8220;Own a piece of history&#8230;&#8221;, and the third frame offers, &#8220;Own a plaque made with the metal from the World Trade Center&#8221;. It then closes with, &#8220;WE WILL NEVER FORGET&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Part of me knew that there would be people capitalizing on the tragedy as fast as they could &#8212; and, true to form, postcards featuring the WTC became hot items within hours after the attacks &#8212; but this one just makes my skin crawl. Personally, I think stooping to this level of crass commercialism and exploitation is just horrendous.<\/p>\n<p>Guess I wouldn&#8217;t make it in the advertising world, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pds.com\/cgi-bin\/stores\/0911.cgi?prod=frontpage.html&amp;uid=2OcsOQAA1019029114&amp;company=0911\/&amp;msrc=\" title=\"Order now and get a lapel pin free!\">this is the page<\/a> that you get when you click on the banner, just in case you&#8217;re curious enough to check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than car, credit, or casino ads, I&#8217;m currently getting a banner that starts with a picture of the American flag. The next frame says, &#8216;Own a piece of history&#8230;&#8217;, and the third frame offers, &#8216;Own a plaque made with the metal from the World Trade Center&#8217;. It then closes with, &#8216;WE WILL NEVER FORGET&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","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=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}