{"id":352,"date":"2011-12-02T07:11:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T07:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=352"},"modified":"2012-08-02T07:08:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T07:08:46","slug":"don%e2%80%99t-tell-me-as-i%e2%80%99m-immune-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Tell Me As I\u2019m Immune To This."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Switch off or take no notice.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s my attitude to most advertising,<br \/>\nand here is the reason why.<\/p>\n<p>Most advertisements make a presumption about both ones<br \/>\nlifestyle,<br \/>\nand\u00a0 those social values which do not apply to me.<\/p>\n<p>I also know just which lines tend to show that I\u2019m about to be<br \/>\nconned out of my money.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; Here is a check-list of those words\u00a0 or expression which will<br \/>\nnever work on me: &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mortgage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Credit card(s).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Take away food menu(s).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Cable Television.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Retirement &amp; funeral plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Loan offers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Celebs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018 As seen on TV \u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Branded goods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sports sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Corporate sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Olympics and all that goes with it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The internal combustion engine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Offers for two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Anything which says \u2018family friendly\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Upgrade(s).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; New\u00a0 or Exciting.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Special offer.<\/p>\n<p>Now I could write something about those words and expressions<br \/>\nwhich might work on me,<br \/>\nbut I just don\u2019t want to deal with yet more spam or junk mail.<\/p>\n<p>No thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switch off or take no notice. That\u2019s my attitude to most advertising, and here is the reason why. Most advertisements make a presumption about both ones lifestyle, and\u00a0 those social values which do not apply to me. I also know just which lines tend to show that I\u2019m about to be conned out of my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don\u2019t Tell Me As I\u2019m Immune To This.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,37,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}