{"id":2431,"date":"2003-03-01T18:42:15","date_gmt":"2003-03-01T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2003-03-01T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2003-03-01T18:42:15","slug":"barbie_gone_sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2431","title":{"rendered":"Barbie Gone Surreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/\">Instapundit<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/trademark.blog.us\/blog\/\">The Trademark Blog<\/a> comes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/007853.php#007853\">tale of fish and beauty gone weird<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>WHEN CROSS-BRANDING BECOMES SURREAL: Okay, I&#8217;ve got nothing against Barbie. And I like SpongeBob. But, somehow, the &#8220;SpongeBob Squarepants Barbie&#8221; just seems, well, weird.<\/p>\n<p>You can imagine the marketing meeting: &#8220;It&#8217;s synergy! Barbie&#8217;s a classic, and SpongeBob&#8217;s a hot new star!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, I don&#8217;t think I can be surprised by anything anymore.  Unless someone&#8217;s actually gone and written Spongebob and Barbie fic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From over on Instapundit via The Trademark Blog comes a tale of fish and beauty gone weird. WHEN CROSS-BRANDING BECOMES SURREAL: Okay, I&#8217;ve got nothing against Barbie. And I like SpongeBob. But, somehow, the &#8220;SpongeBob Squarepants Barbie&#8221; just seems, well, weird. You can imagine the marketing meeting: &#8220;It&#8217;s synergy! Barbie&#8217;s a classic, and SpongeBob&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/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-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}