{"id":666382,"date":"2010-02-16T18:43:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T23:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002215"},"modified":"2010-02-16T19:52:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T00:52:10","slug":"chevy-resurrects-john-mellencamp-our-country-ads-for-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/666382","title":{"rendered":"Chevy Resurrects John Mellencamp &#8220;Our Country&#8221; Ads For Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/addie-thumb-300x185-37085.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been having flashbacks to the fall of 2007 while watching the Olympics on NBC this week, you might want to blame Chevy, who decided to dust off their love-it-or-hate-it &#8220;Our Country&#8221; ad campaign for the winter games in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>As you may remember, when Chevy first bombarded the airwaves (especially during baseball and football games) with Johnny Cougar&#8217;s patriotic jingle, there was a backlash that resulted in everything from a Newsweek editorial begging them to stop, to an anti-Chevy movement on ESPN to the creation of more than a dozen Facebook groups dedicated to hating these TV spots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2007\/11\/chevy-we-dont-care-that-the-our-country-song-is-annoying-and-everyone-hates-it.html\" >At the time<\/a>, Chevy called the ads a &#8220;success,&#8221; though they apparently had no positive effect on sales.<\/p>\n<p>So, more than two years later, what do you think?<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/2710763.js\"><\/script><noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2710763\/\">Should Chevy have resurrected their &#8220;Our Country&#8221; campaign?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\">answers<\/a>)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been having flashbacks to the fall of 2007 while watching the Olympics on NBC this week, you might want to blame Chevy, who decided to dust off their love-it-or-hate-it &#8220;Our Country&#8221; ad campaign for the winter games in Vancouver. As you may remember, when Chevy first bombarded the airwaves (especially during baseball and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Nm6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}