{"id":3258,"date":"2009-05-06T15:08:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T19:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2009-05-06T15:09:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T19:09:24","slug":"best-use-of-rappers-delight-in-a-commercial-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=3258","title":{"rendered":"Best. Use Of. &#8220;Rapper&#8217;s Delight.&#8221; In A Commercial. <i>Ever<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EEF0cg1j35o\"  target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3489\" title=\"screen3\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/screen3.jpg\" alt=\"screen3\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/screen3.jpg 834w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/screen3-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet, &#8220;Rapper&#8217;s Delight&#8221; isn&#8217;t the best aspect of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EEF0cg1j35o\"  target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Cog,&#8221; a 2-minute Honda commercial, produced by Nike stalwarts Wieden + Kennedy, which aired in the UK during 2003<\/a>. That would be its sheer visual inventiveness and <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcontentproducer.com\/mag\/video_practical_motion\/\"  target=\"_blank\">luscious backstory<\/a>, one of filmmakers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2003\/may\/01\/thisweekssciencequestions\"  target=\"_blank\">going to insane limits<\/a> to create a vision that, until the moment the lights go dark, only exists inside their heads.<\/p>\n<p>I recently discovered this spot while doing research on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rube_Goldberg_machine\"  target=\"_blank\">Rube Goldberg machines<\/a>&#8230;and I was looking those up as an aspect of some religious writing I&#8217;m doing&#8230;which is, I should say here, what I&#8217;ve always loved about the net and, certainly by extension, Wikipedia: Its serendipitous nature, and that, following it, you never end up where you started or expected&#8230;that being, I think you&#8217;ll agree, what this advertisement is about, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet, &#8220;Rapper&#8217;s Delight&#8221; isn&#8217;t the best aspect of &#8220;Cog,&#8221; a 2-minute Honda commercial, produced by Nike stalwarts Wieden + Kennedy, which aired in the UK during 2003. That would be its sheer visual inventiveness and luscious backstory, one of filmmakers going to insane limits to create a vision that, until the moment the lights go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,10,3,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258"}],"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=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}