{"id":361,"date":"2008-05-04T07:48:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T14:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/?p=361"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:31","slug":"i-dont-fast-forward-the-ipod-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/i-dont-fast-forward-the-ipod-commercials\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t fast forward the iPod commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I actually watch a lot of the commercials, even though we have DVR (the best and worst thing that ever happened to TV &#8211; maybe a separate blog&#8230;).\u00c2\u00a0 Some commercials aren&#8217;t interesting, aren&#8217;t imaginative, and aren&#8217;t fun to watch.\u00c2\u00a0 Some commercials are boring, are dull, and are annoying.\u00c2\u00a0 Some.\u00c2\u00a0 But as a drama troupe member for years, and a drama troupe leader for many more years, and a lifetime class clown &#8211; short sketch comedy keeps my interest.\u00c2\u00a0 Commercials that are interesting, imaginative, fun to watch and not boring, dull, or annoying &#8211; fit the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The iPod commercials are great!\u00c2\u00a0 The dancing, the music, people enjoying themselves, doing the whole &#8220;dancing like no one is around&#8221; thing.\u00c2\u00a0 *** A.D.D moment, I just laughed out loud at a Buger King commercial where a guy does a rolling jump out of his car to get to the door of the restaurant without waiting to park, as his face slams into the door, a voice over says &#8220;It&#8217;s the burger you can&#8217;t wait for&#8221;, and his car rolls into a parked car &#8211; very funny.***\u00c2\u00a0 wait&#8230; iPod commercial, dancing, Sorry, I&#8217;m back.\u00c2\u00a0 At the bottom of this post is one of the commercials I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>By the way &#8211; I don&#8217;t own an iPod &#8211; the commercials are great, but the price is just too high for me&#8230; besides, no matter how great the commercials are, I have no expectation that owning one will make me a better dancer or have a better life.\u00c2\u00a0 But watching them does give make me smile, 30 seconds at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a favorite commercial?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ipod.flv\">[MEDIA=7]<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I actually watch a lot of the commercials, even though we have DVR (the best and worst thing that ever happened to TV &#8211; maybe a separate blog&#8230;).\u00c2\u00a0 Some commercials aren&#8217;t interesting, aren&#8217;t imaginative, and aren&#8217;t fun to watch.\u00c2\u00a0 Some commercials are boring, are dull, and are annoying.\u00c2\u00a0 Some.\u00c2\u00a0 But as a drama troupe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}