{"id":3525,"date":"2009-05-12T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T22:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2009-05-12T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T22:41:07","slug":"fly-the-friendly-skies-of-oj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=3525","title":{"rendered":"Fly the Friendly Skies of O.J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lf46hDT5SQQ?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lf46hDT5SQQ?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>What really comes through in O.J. Simpson&#8217;s 1970s commercials for Hertz is how much charm and charisma he possessed, and how much the camera loved him. It&#8217;s really easy to see, even apart from his much-heralded performances on the football field, why he was a natural, and extremely popular, spokesperson for the brand.<\/p>\n<p>That O.J. Simpson was ever beloved, of course, may certainly be a revelation for lots of young people, many of whom are not even old enough to remember to remember his 1994-95 murder case and trial, not to mention his TV spots or NFL triumphs. Now, of course, Simpson couldn&#8217;t even get an endorsement from a knife company, and that&#8217;s coming from someone who doesn&#8217;t necessarily believe he killed his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman in June &#8217;94. But what do I know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video What really comes through in O.J. Simpson&#8217;s 1970s commercials for Hertz is how much charm and charisma he possessed, and how much the camera loved him. It&#8217;s really easy to see, even apart from his much-heralded performances on the football field, why he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,28,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525"}],"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=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}