{"id":16345,"date":"2017-02-07T19:33:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T02:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16345"},"modified":"2017-02-07T19:33:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T02:33:32","slug":"damned-big-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/02\/07\/damned-big-game\/","title":{"rendered":"damned big game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trying to maneuver through the meaning of the Superbowl ads, I have this thought — as I watched a handful of games at the end of the season and a smattering of the playoffs…<\/p>\n

… and only the last quarter and overtime of the Super Big Game…<\/p>\n

The ad for the NFL was a groaner.\u00c2\u00a0 “Between these lines”.\u00c2\u00a0 “We have our differences, but…”.\u00c2\u00a0 Cut up to the football field, see the outline of geographic America.\u00c2\u00a0 And so the equation of patriotism as the league suffers a few lashes over the past years… admittedly from a towering height.\u00c2\u00a0 (It is a thing I’ve noted in ads on games over the past year.\u00c2\u00a0 A more concerted effort to wrap up a narrative for football than I remember from years ago.)<\/p>\n

Hm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00c2\u00a0conservative televangelist Pat Robertson couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t contain his enthusiasm for the Super Bowl, on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The 700 Club,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d singling out Lady Gaga\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s halftime performance as a highlight.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lady Gaga did a fantastic halftime show,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you went to sleep, you missed a great evening!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Actually it’s weird that Pat Robertson is praising the song “Poker Face”.\u00c2\u00a0 Political or not, it is just a bunch of sexual innuendo.\u00c2\u00a0 So… just so long as you don’t make an explicit statement that “President Trump” sucks, you’re okay with some of these moral purveyors right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trying to maneuver through the meaning of the Superbowl ads, I have this thought — as I watched a handful of games at the end of the season and a smattering of the playoffs… … and only the last quarter and overtime of the Super Big Game… The ad for the NFL was a groaner.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/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-16345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16346,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16345\/revisions\/16346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}