{"id":81,"date":"2005-08-01T23:40:15","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=81"},"modified":"2005-08-02T23:41:09","modified_gmt":"2005-08-03T07:41:09","slug":"the-4400-product-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/the-4400-product-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"The 4400:  Product Placement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now know what those mysterious returnees from alien spaceships drink. Budweiser &#8482; beer.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a tabloid speculation?  No, it&#8217;s eyewitness testimony from anyone who watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrants.com\/\">the latest episode<\/a> of the popular sci-fi show.<\/p>\n<p>After the funeral of a buddy, our  heroes  go to a bar to lift their spirits. They drink Bud &#8482;, lots of it.  The camera gets closeups of the product.  Then they <em>talk<\/em> about how their departed friend loved the brand, buying &#8220;three cases&#8221; of it once.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just like it was back then.&#8221; the characters say. Not a bad themeline for The King of Beers &#8482;, is it?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to branch out in TV copywriting, try writing a show with product placements like this.<\/p>\n<p>Move over, Herbie. <em>The 4400<\/em> is closing in fast in the placement race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now know what those mysterious returnees from alien spaceships drink. Budweiser &#8482; beer. Is this a tabloid speculation? No, it&#8217;s eyewitness testimony from anyone who watched the latest episode of the popular sci-fi show. After the funeral of a buddy, our heroes go to a bar to lift their spirits. They drink Bud &#8482;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}