{"id":15624,"date":"2002-08-27T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-27T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/27\/every-kid-who-ever-hung-out-with-the-drama-group\/"},"modified":"2002-08-27T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-27T10:56:00","slug":"every-kid-who-ever-hung-out-with-the-drama-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/27\/every-kid-who-ever-hung-out-with-the-drama-group\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2002\/08\/23\/pf\/autos\/microbus\/index.htm\" title=\"2005 VW Microbus\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"2005 VW Microbus\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/vwmicrobus.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegasmercury.com\/2001\/MERC-Feb-09-Fri-2001\/15198367.html\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;Every kid who ever hung out with the drama group is now spoiling every song you ever loved by obscure artists the world over&rdquo;<\/a> by using them in advertising.  <i>The Gap<\/i> alone is responsible for ruining many a song for me, and the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/drivergear.vw.com\/store\/accessory.asp?product_id=2129\" target=\"_blank\">Volkswagen sells a soundtrack album<\/a> tells you something.  Although I must admit that their commercials aren&rsquo;t quite as egregiously annoying as some; maybe it&rsquo;s because I own a VW.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2002\/08\/23\/pf\/autos\/microbus\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">VW is reintroducing the Microbus in 2005<\/a>.  It looks alright, but departs a little too much from the &lsquo;60s classic in my opinion.  At least the New Beetle is an obvious descendant of the original&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-85385443?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Every kid who ever hung out with the drama group is now spoiling every song you ever loved by obscure artists the world over&rdquo; by using them in advertising. The Gap alone is responsible for ruining many a song for me, and the fact that Volkswagen sells a soundtrack album tells you something. Although I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/27\/every-kid-who-ever-hung-out-with-the-drama-group\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#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-15624","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\/15624","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=15624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}