{"id":205,"date":"2006-06-23T00:58:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-06-23\/205"},"modified":"2006-06-23T00:58:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T15:58:13","slug":"can-you-tell-what-this-ad-is-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-06-23\/205","title":{"rendered":"Can You Tell What This Ad Is About?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nThis is not the most ridiculous advertisement <span class='nobr'>I have<\/span> ever seen, but it's\nthe most ridiculous advertisement I've ever seen on the front page of <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/yahoo.com\">Yahoo!<\/a> Also, it's perhaps the most vague as\nwell:\n\n<\/p>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/YahooHealth.jpg\" width=\"406\" height=\"260\"\nclass=\"ic\"\nid=\"iYahooHealth\"\nindexhint=\"right\"\nstyle=\"margin-top:30px; margin-bottom: 20px\"\/>\n\n<p>\n\nWhat do issues affecting young women have to do with &#8220;what defines my\ngeneration&#8221;? (Note to the new reader: <span class='nobr'>I am<\/span> not <span class='nobr'>a young<\/span> woman.... not\neven close.)\n\n<\/p>\n   \n<p>\n\nAn online exhibit of <i>what<\/i>? <span class='nobr'>Of young<\/span> women? Well, sure, <span class='nobr'>I'm up for<\/span> that.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nMusic and community resources? What on earth does that have to do with the above???\nOooooh, wait, is this <span class='nobr'>a MySpace<\/span> ad?\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nI have no idea what it's all about, and from the look of the person in the ad, neither does she.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nIn any case, there's certainly nothing about the ad that makes me want to\nclick to find out (not even the oh-so-inviting &#8220;<span style=\"font-size:90%\">GET INVOLVED<\/span>&#8221;\nbutton), but at least the discussion is &#8220;global&#8221;, so they've\ngot that going for them. Sigh.\n\n<\/p>\n\n<br clear=\"all\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> This is not the most ridiculous advertisement I have ever seen, but it's the most ridiculous advertisement I've ever seen on the front page of Yahoo! Also, it's perhaps the most vague as well: <\/p> <p> What do issues affecting young women have to do with \"what defines my generation\"? (Note to the new reader: I am not a young woman.... not even close.) <\/p> <p> An online exhibit of what? Of young women? Well, sure, I'm up for that. <\/p><p> Music and community resources? What on earth does that have to do with the above??? Oooooh, wait, is [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}