{"id":2382,"date":"2009-05-12T07:11:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2009-05-08T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T19:27:06","slug":"the-king-will-haunt-your-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2382","title":{"rendered":"The King Will Haunt Your Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like the fact that at some point Burger King realized that its giant plastic-headed mascot was creepy as hell and instead of switching to something less horrifying decided to just run with it.<\/p>\n<p>Last December they launched a new men&#8217;s fragrance which featured &#8220;a hint of flame-broiled meat,&#8221; and followed it up with a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.firemeetsdesire.com\/\">promotional Web site<\/A>.  (Go there, and click.  Click a few more times.  See?)<\/p>\n<p>Now they&#8217;re promoting their <I>Star Trek<\/I> movie tie-in glasses with a series of ads demonstrating the appropriate way to fend off a Burger Klingon intent on stealing your stuff.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ysW9dZUZ4e0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ysW9dZUZ4e0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The rest are <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KingonDefenseAcademy\">here<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>Now just try and get to sleep tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the fact that at some point Burger King realized that its giant plastic-headed mascot was creepy as hell and instead of switching to something less horrifying decided to just run with it. Last December they launched a new men&#8217;s fragrance which featured &#8220;a hint of flame-broiled meat,&#8221; and followed it up with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}