{"id":1764,"date":"2008-10-23T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2008-10-24T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T14:13:50","slug":"set-your-phones-on-vibrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1764","title":{"rendered":"Set Your Phones On Vibrator."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dg52BMTBkbQ\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u201cI need a man!\u201d\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/screen71.jpg\" title=\"\u201cI need a man!\u201d\" alt=\"\u201cI need a man!\u201d\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I love about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dg52BMTBkbQ\"  target=\"_blank\">Sprint&#8217;s Instinct &#8220;Romance&#8221; commercial<\/a>, above, is its slick mashup quality, nakedly blendering dumb chickflick dialogue with a shameless cell phone pitch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rachel, you know what your problem is,&#8221; the protagonist&#8217;s &#8220;biracial&#8221; BBFF urges over lunch (and faint, Ben Folds-ish piano chords). &#8220;You want everything: You want a husband, you want unlimited text, unlimited data, <em>and<\/em> unlimited calls.&#8221; Rachel gives an It&#8217;s-true-but-I&#8217;m-tired-of-you-telling-me-my-faults look in the other direction.<\/p>\n<p>Then the climax: &#8220;Maybe you&#8217;re <em>afraid<\/em> to be in love!&#8221; the Best Black Friend summarizes, moments before Rachel&#8217;s breakthrough. &#8220;I think I&#8217;m falling in love&#8230;&#8221; she concedes, giving a girly headshake, &#8220;&#8230;<em>with a phone!<\/em>&#8221; Wow. What delicious crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I love about Sprint&#8217;s Instinct &#8220;Romance&#8221; commercial, above, is its slick mashup quality, nakedly blendering dumb chickflick dialogue with a shameless cell phone pitch. &#8220;Rachel, you know what your problem is,&#8221; the protagonist&#8217;s &#8220;biracial&#8221; BBFF urges over lunch (and faint, Ben Folds-ish piano chords). &#8220;You want everything: You want a husband, you want unlimited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,69,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}