{"id":687674,"date":"2010-03-10T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T17:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e201310f880f9d970c"},"modified":"2010-03-11T06:21:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T11:21:12","slug":"after-the-old-spice-ad-hits-suddenly-everyone-is-on-a-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/687674","title":{"rendered":"After the Old Spice ad hits, suddenly everyone is on a horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p><object height=\"205\" style=\"margin: 0pt 8px 0pt 0pt; float: right;\" width=\"330\"><param amp;\"=\"name=\" application=\"\" movie\"=\"\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xzwLOqC2kVI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\" x-shockwave-flash\"=\"\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">You knew it wouldn&#39;t take long for someone to parody those already-tongue-in-cheek <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/oldspice?feature=pyv&amp;ad=3379911317&amp;kw=old%20spice&amp;gclid=CKO5g6rUrqACFdlw5Qod0SXcMg#\">Old Spice ads<\/a> from Weiden + Kennedy, right? As &quot;I&#39;m on a horse&quot; becomes a <a href=\"http:\/\/adbroad.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/why-im-on-horse-isnt-wheres-beef.html\">debatable catchphrase<\/a>, and gets at least one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sDo46bfxUP4&amp;feature=player_embedded\">loving tribute<\/a>, one wag has imagined how Apple might appropriate the Old Spice messaging for its own purposes. &quot;Hello, geeks. Take a look at your phone and now back at mine. Now back at your phone,&quot; a geeky-looking guy challenges, suggesting that the viewer buy an Apple phone versus &quot;girly phones&quot; from T-Mobile and Sprint. The fake ad then uses a similar sleight-of-hand to show the announcer switching locations without breaking conversational stride. &quot;We&#39;re in an Apple Store. In a black turtleneck. With a phone that could be like mine.&quot; Meanwhile, someone else has introduced a more entertaining variation on the Old Spice parody with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gz9mAtNo5O0\">talking sausage<\/a>.&#0160;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2014Posted by Todd Wasserman<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2510,"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-687674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2STw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687674","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\/2510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}