{"id":668,"date":"2010-05-19T13:49:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T18:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=668"},"modified":"2010-05-19T13:49:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T18:49:22","slug":"marketing-to-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Marketing to Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend David sent us a package of Cheese Puffs in the mail. In part he splurged on the shipping charges because he knows my husband really likes Cheese Puffs. Mostly he sent it because of the packaging. Our question is the same as David&#8217;s, namely <em>what in the heck made the marketing department at Payaso feel that this particular clown, who would clearly be more at home on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insaneclownposse.com\/\">Insane Clown Posse<\/a> album, was a good idea?<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1521.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1521-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1521\" title=\"IMG_1521\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-673\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1521-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1521-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1521-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOkay, so &#8220;payaso&#8221; means &#8220;clown&#8221; in Spanish. But it doesn&#8217;t mean &#8220;really scary clown&#8221; (that would be &#8220;payaso realmente espantoso,&#8221; if you trust my Google translator).  For the record, the bright orange glow of the cheese puffs was such that my kids didn&#8217;t really notice the clown. When I pointed him out, they asked &#8220;is he a bad guy?&#8221;<br \/>\nI wasn&#8217;t sure of the answer there. Maybe he&#8217;s trying to do the honorable thing and scare us away from processed foods? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend David sent us a package of Cheese Puffs in the mail. In part he splurged on the shipping charges because he knows my husband really likes Cheese Puffs. Mostly he sent it because of the packaging. Our question &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=668\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}