{"id":355,"date":"2010-09-28T17:41:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T22:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroutman.com\/land\/?p=355"},"modified":"2011-12-04T02:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T07:58:02","slug":"nbc-proud-as-a-peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briantroutman.com\/land\/nbc-proud-as-a-peacock\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC &#8211; Proud as a Peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DsxW06anUPo\" target=\"_blank\">1979 NBC &#8220;Proud as a Peacock&#8221; image piece<\/a>, with its clips recalling Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Jack Benny, and other legends from the network&#8217;s sunnier days, and I wondered how the same campaign would go along with images from a period the network would rather forget: the quiz show scandals of the late &#8217;50s.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"550\" height=\"330\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ztJu9NrAOW4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"550\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ztJu9NrAOW4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching the 1979 NBC &#8220;Proud as a Peacock&#8221; image piece, with its clips recalling Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Jack Benny, and other legends from the network&#8217;s sunnier days, and I wondered how the same campaign would go along with images from a period the network would rather forget: the quiz show scandals of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[45,46,47],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odds-and-ends","tag-nbc","tag-proud-as-a-peacock","tag-quiz-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briantroutman.com\/land\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briantroutman.com\/land\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briantroutman.com\/land\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briantroutman.com\/land\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briantroutman.com\/land\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/briantroutman.com\/land\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/briantroutman.com\/land\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briantroutman.com\/land\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briantroutman.com\/land\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briantroutman.com\/land\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}