{"id":705173,"date":"2010-03-30T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003914"},"modified":"2010-03-30T21:16:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T01:16:48","slug":"the-census-is-getting-weird-with-its-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/705173","title":{"rendered":"The Census Is Getting Weird With Its Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/033010-004-fortune-cookies-thumb-300x190-38754.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Nobody<\/em> expects the U.S. Census! Our chief weapon is surprise!&#8221; A Seattle blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notmartha.org\/archives\/2010\/03\/30\/least-expected-places\/\">posted a photograph of a fortune<\/a> she received in her fortune cookie recently, and it looks like the Census is using <strike>surprise<\/strike> <strike>fear and surprise<\/strike> surprise, fear, and a ruthless efficiency to remind people to send back their forms. Oh, and they&#8217;re ruining fortune cookies. I fully expect to be forced into a comfy chair soon, which all in all isn&#8217;t a bad way to be tortured, so meh. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notmartha.org\/archives\/2010\/03\/30\/least-expected-places\/\">&#8220;least expected places&#8221;<\/a> [Not Martha] <i>(Thanks to Al!)<\/i><br \/>\n[In case you have no idea what this post is about]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/paulfitz\/spanish\/script.html\">&#8220;The Spanish Inquisition by Monty Python&#8221;<\/a> [MIT] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nobody expects the U.S. Census! Our chief weapon is surprise!&#8221; A Seattle blogger posted a photograph of a fortune she received in her fortune cookie recently, and it looks like the Census is using surprise fear and surprise surprise, fear, and a ruthless efficiency to remind people to send back their forms. Oh, and they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"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-705173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XrL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705173","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\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}