{"id":262,"date":"2007-08-26T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T17:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2012-02-14T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:01:55","slug":"not-to-get-all-lowbrow-on-you-or-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Not to Get All Lowbrow on You or Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . but have you seen this commercial yet?<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RwX8MzOKOzI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Jesus.\u00a0 I remember how shocked Donna and I were when we saw our first Ultra Brite commercial . . . remember the toothpaste that gave your mouth &#8220;sex appeal&#8221;?\u00a0 That was in the late 60s or early 70s, back when you couldn&#8217;t say the word &#8220;sex&#8221; on TV.<\/p>\n<p>Look how far we&#8217;ve come!<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re at it, what&#8217;s with these Pizza Hut ads for &#8220;cal-zone&#8221;?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t it pronounced &#8220;cal-<span class=\"unicode\">zon-e<\/span>&#8220;?\u00a0 Maybe not in America, though . . . when I stand in line at Subway, I hear people ask for\u00a0&#8220;provo-lone&#8221; cheese on their sandwiches, never &#8220;provo-lon-e,&#8221; as I learned to say it.<\/p>\n<p>Here in southern Arizona,\u00a0non-Hispanic locals\u00a0go out of their way to Anglicize the pronounciation of Spanish place names.\u00a0 I swear, if you pronounce Casa Grande &#8220;casa grand-eh&#8221; no one will understand you.\u00a0 They call it &#8220;Kassa-Grand,&#8221;\u00a0run together as if it&#8217;s one word.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s just the way it is, and I harbor no grudges.\u00a0 To\u00a0you Kassa-Grandians who eat cal-zones and provo-lone, I wish your mouths sex appeal and your\u00a0bowels regularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . but have you seen this commercial yet? Jesus.\u00a0 I remember how shocked Donna and I were when we saw our first Ultra Brite commercial . . . remember the toothpaste that gave your mouth &#8220;sex appeal&#8221;?\u00a0 That was in the late 60s or early 70s, back when you couldn&#8217;t say the word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-culture","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9157,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}