{"id":86,"date":"2007-06-12T22:27:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T21:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2007-06-12T22:27:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T21:27:16","slug":"slightly-sick-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Slightly sick ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just seen an ad on <strong>UKTV<\/strong> for Oasis, a fruity soft drink produced by Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n<p>It sees a herd of wildebeest stampede across the plains for the watering hole. When they arrive, one sniffs at the mucky liquid and the voice-over\/interior monologue goes something like: &#8220;What? We came all this way across Africa to drink this muck? How could it possibly get any worse?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At which point a crocodile leaps from the water and sinks its teeth into one of the wildebeest.<\/p>\n<p>As the herd flees, the weird little man who seems to be the main figure in the ad campaign appears and starts chugging down a bottle of Oasis. While the slogan &#8220;Oasis: for people who don&#8217;t like water&#8221; comes on screen, the croc drags the kicking animal into the water while the dying wildebeest says &#8220;This is exactly what happened to Alan last year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n<p>The narration is mildly amusing I suppose, but the fact that some goofball is messing around on screen swigging from a bottle of  juice while an animal is dragged to its death is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. I like animals more than most people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just seen an ad on UKTV for Oasis, a fruity soft drink produced by Coca-Cola. It sees a herd of wildebeest stampede across the plains for the watering hole. When they arrive, one sniffs at the mucky liquid and the voice-over\/interior monologue goes something like: &#8220;What? We came all this way across Africa to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,51,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}