{"id":2109,"date":"2011-01-29T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2012-04-02T14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T14:56:49","slug":"auto-and-generals-dear-madiba-banner-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2011\/01\/auto-and-generals-dear-madiba-banner-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto and General&#8217;s &#8216;Dear Madiba&#8217; banner ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture_31.png.scaled10001.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Picture_3\" height=\"62\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture_31.png.scaled10001.png\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not sure what to make of this. On the face of it, we have a corporate company in South Africa extending good wishes to someone who is a hero in our society. But they paid for this banner to run on the sites it appears on. And they included their &#8216;extended&#8217; logo here with a business description to gain some kind of commercial benefit from their non-commercial message. Yet, to their credit, the banner isn&#8217;t clickable.<\/p>\n<p \/>So it&#8217;s nothing more than a get well soon card in banner form, with a logo, including a description of their business. <\/p>\n<p \/>Smart? Tacky? Altruistic? You decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure what to make of this. On the face of it, we have a corporate company in South Africa extending good wishes to someone who is a hero in our society. But they paid for this banner to run on the sites it appears on. And they included their &#8216;extended&#8217;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2767,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}