{"id":223,"date":"2003-08-28T04:15:55","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T08:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2003\/08\/28\/misfortune-cookies\/"},"modified":"2003-08-28T04:15:55","modified_gmt":"2003-08-28T08:15:55","slug":"misfortune-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2003\/08\/28\/misfortune-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Misfortune Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a95'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Just when you thought that marketing has crept into every possible crevice of one&#8217;s consciousness, some new advertising ploy pops up to shock the senses.&nbsp; At the end of my weekly meal with my grandmother earlier this week, we received two fortune cookies with the bill.&nbsp; When I opened my cookie, I was appalled by the contents, the Snapple logo, followed by the message, &#8220;Snapple says wearing a cape and underwear does not make you a superhero.&#8221;&nbsp; My grandmother was looking forward to her message, and has poor eyesight, so she asked me to read hers to her.&nbsp; It read, &#8220;Snapple says having dinner with an investment banker is chow not so fun.&#8221;&nbsp; There was no way that&nbsp;I could explain the tacky joke to her, and she was disappointed because there was no fortune.&nbsp; These Snapple people have now earned my wrath.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I know that fortune cookies aren&#8217;t really Chinese, but still they should remain advertising free.&nbsp; I remember being a superstitious little kid, who believed that if I tore the fortune, it would bring bad luck.&nbsp; Now I hope this bad luck strikes Snapple as people feel angry about marketing that has gone too far.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought that marketing has crept into every possible crevice of one&#8217;s consciousness, some new advertising ploy pops up to shock the senses.&nbsp; At the end of my weekly meal with my grandmother earlier this week, we received two fortune cookies with the bill.&nbsp; When I opened my cookie, I was appalled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}