{"id":15296,"date":"2003-01-02T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-02T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/02\/homer-to-pitch-reebok-classics\/"},"modified":"2003-01-02T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-02T16:59:00","slug":"homer-to-pitch-reebok-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/02\/homer-to-pitch-reebok-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"Homer To Pitch Reebok Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Groening was never above marketing <i>The Simpsons<\/i> (Butterfinger, Burger King, and an endless list of T-Shirts etc., to name but a few), so I guess I shouldn&rsquo;t be too surprised at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesstoday.com\/business\/business\/reeb12312002.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.  However, I have this feeling that if it continues, they&rsquo;ll just get way overexposed and lose their appeal.  Then again, it could be argued that this already happened several seasons ago, so maybe my concerns are unfounded.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m still waiting for the triumphant return of Conan O&#8217;Brien as a writer for the series; only he can bring the show back to its halcyon days of hilarity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90133793?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Groening was never above marketing The Simpsons (Butterfinger, Burger King, and an endless list of T-Shirts etc., to name but a few), so I guess I shouldn&rsquo;t be too surprised at this. However, I have this feeling that if it continues, they&rsquo;ll just get way overexposed and lose their appeal. Then again, it could &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/02\/homer-to-pitch-reebok-classics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homer To Pitch Reebok Classics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}