{"id":954,"date":"2003-03-07T18:02:15","date_gmt":"2003-03-08T02:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/03\/07\/954.html"},"modified":"2003-03-07T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2003-03-08T02:02:15","slug":"it-was-a-scary-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/03\/07\/it-was-a-scary-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"It was a scary bear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofthewest.com\/\">Bank of the West<\/a> has a new billboard advertising campaign that shows various humans grinning as a large bear looks over their shoulder.  (See their site for an example.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it's just me, but I think the grins look a little forced, perhaps even a little panicky.  I'd be panicky too if there were a bear looking over my shoulder.  I'd be thinking, as the people in these ads seem to be thinking, \"Maybe if I keep this grin plastered across my face for long enough, the bear will think I'm friendly and I can escape.\"<\/p>\n<p>It's just not a very enticing ad, if you ask me.  \"Come open an account at Bank of the West and we won't sic our bear on you.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of the West has a new billboard advertising campaign that shows various humans grinning as a large bear looks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}