{"id":4215,"date":"2004-08-12T08:08:48","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T08:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2004-08-12T08:08:48","modified_gmt":"2004-08-12T08:08:48","slug":"all_i_wanted_wa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4215","title":{"rendered":"All I Wanted Was a Pepsi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t even begin to imagine this happening at an event here.  People would riot.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/08\/12\/olympic_brandwhoring.html\">Olympic brand-whoring attains new, shameful low<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Interational Olympic Committee &#8212; whose high-horse is well and truly elevated when it comes to lecturing atheletes about doping &#8212; is policing spectators at the games to ensure that they aren&#8217;t toting brand-marks for their sponsors&#8217; rivals. Penalties for buying the wrong product range from confiscation of your goods to being forced to wear your t-shirt logo-side-in. The worst of it is the steaming craopla from the IOC official who says &#8220;We have to protect official sponsors who have paid millions to make the Olympics happen.&#8221; Oh, rilly? Or what? They won&#8217;t sponsor the Olympics anymore? Earth-to-official: companies sponsor your games because they&#8217;re important and lots of people watch them, not because they can be assured that Olympic venues will be swept clean of rival logos.<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.halifaxherald.com\/stories\/2004\/08\/08\/f202.raw.html\">Link<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/08\/12\/olympic_brandwhoring.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder what the sponsors thing of this.  I&#8217;m sure this is not the kind of publicity they wanted from the Olympics. I wonder if we&#8217;ll be hearing comments from the sponsors on this now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t even begin to imagine this happening at an event here. People would riot. Olympic brand-whoring attains new, shameful low The Interational Olympic Committee &#8212; whose high-horse is well and truly elevated when it comes to lecturing atheletes about doping &#8212; is policing spectators at the games to ensure that they aren&#8217;t toting brand-marks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","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=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}