{"id":199,"date":"2006-06-29T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T06:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2006\/06\/29\/self-contradictory-advertising\/"},"modified":"2006-06-29T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T06:19:56","slug":"self-contradictory-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/29\/self-contradictory-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Contradictory Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw these three advertisements (for advertisement space- how recursive can you get?) at the <strike>Rajiv Chowk<\/strike> Connaught Place station of the Delhi Metro.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aadisht\/177520355\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"201\" alt=\"DSCN0471\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/74\/177520355_5c47647110.jpg?resize=450%2C201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aadisht\/177519945\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"197\" alt=\"DSCN0472\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/65\/177519945_057a37810a.jpg?resize=450%2C197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aadisht\/177519591\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"197\" alt=\"DSCN0473\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/78\/177519591_cac760fbb8.jpg?resize=450%2C197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically the funda is that each of the ads shows somebody with their eyes blocked- by cucumbers, hair or a bucket and claims that&#8217;s the only way someone will miss that ad space- and by implication, advertisers should run out and buy it.<\/p>\n<p>But if there are <em>three<\/em> separate ways to miss the ad, then they can&#8217;t each be the <em>only<\/em> way. Woreshtax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw these three advertisements (for advertisement space- how recursive can you get?) at the Rajiv Chowk Connaught Place station of the Delhi Metro. Basically the funda is that each of the ads shows somebody with their eyes blocked- by cucumbers, hair or a bucket and claims that&#8217;s the only way someone will miss that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-3d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}