{"id":207,"date":"2005-10-26T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=207"},"modified":"2005-10-26T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T12:33:00","slug":"idea-ad-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/26\/idea-ad-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Idea: ad campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I was driving home from work, and I turned on the radio. &#8220;Working Man&#8221; from Rush&#8217;s first album was playing. &#8220;Well, they call me the Working Man\/I guess that&#8217;s what I am&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This morning, as I got ready for work, I thought to myself, Orkin Pest Control should license that song and make a commercial out of it. You could have a guy in the Orkin uniform, but with &#8217;70s\/&#8217;80s rock star big hair, holding a guitar on stage, jamming out with a couple of giant bugs (humans dressed in bug costumes).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, they call me the Orkin Man.  I guess that&#8217;s what I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the song, the Orkin Man could smash the guitar, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">ala<\/span> Pete Townshend, over the heads of the giant bugs, killing them.<\/p>\n<p>Great idea, huh?  Maybe I should be working for an ad agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I was driving home from work, and I turned on the radio. &#8220;Working Man&#8221; from Rush&#8217;s first album was playing. &#8220;Well, they call me the Working Man\/I guess that&#8217;s what I am&#8221; This morning, as I got ready for work, I thought to myself, Orkin Pest Control should license that song &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/26\/idea-ad-campaign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Idea: ad campaign&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->