{"id":2773,"date":"2011-05-17T13:03:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2011-05-17T13:03:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:03:39","slug":"while-we-wait-for-lowes-to-get-a-new-door-regarding-commercials-and-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/while-we-wait-for-lowes-to-get-a-new-door-regarding-commercials-and-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"While we wait for Lowes to get a new door&#8230;regarding commercials and sound&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;have you noticed the new trend in commercials: they start soft, then dial up the volume to a near-painful point. On my particular never-buy list: Bare Minerals. And Humana Supplemental health insurance for retired persons: I find it particularly insulting that they assume all of us over 60 are also deaf as posts and need to be shouted at.<\/p>\n<p>Runner up: commercials that repeat phone numbers again and again and again, especially targeting old people. What do you think we can&#8217;t remember, or what? I have a long memory for annoying commercials.<\/p>\n<p>I also have had it with commercials exhorting me to buy &#8220;now&#8221; or &#8220;today.&#8221; My answer: &#8220;I&#8217;ll buy, if ever, unlikely, since you have annoyed me in a very memorable way, when I feel like it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And stupid exaultation over stupid products. HD Sunglasses? Give me a break. HD. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I need TWO slap-choppers? Because they break?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;have you noticed the new trend in commercials: they start soft, then dial up the volume to a near-painful point. On my particular never-buy list: Bare Minerals. And Humana Supplemental health insurance for retired persons: I find it particularly insulting that they assume all of us over 60 are also deaf as posts and need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}