{"id":379,"date":"2010-10-25T15:05:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T20:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/10\/25\/101025_searszombies\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T15:26:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T20:26:22","slug":"101025_searszombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/10\/25\/101025_searszombies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sears: Where the Undead Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why would Sears create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sears.com\/shc\/s\/dap_10153_12605_DAP_Zombie?origin=zeta\">a remarkably graphic (but still tongue-in-cheek) ad campaign that features zombies<\/a>? Beats me, but I&#8217;m impressed, if slightly unnerved. I mean, they&#8217;ve gone all out, including three videos using the undead to pitch their products, and their zombieized website is at least a couple of clicks deep before you get to actual merchandise. You can even click a link that re-translates the site&#8217;s verbiage into zombie-speak (although I cannot vouch for its accuracy).<\/p>\n<p>Two thumbs up for the effort, Sears! Now, why are you looking at me like that&#8230;?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/searszombie.jpg\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would Sears create a remarkably graphic (but still tongue-in-cheek) ad campaign that features zombies? Beats me, but I&#8217;m impressed, if slightly unnerved. I mean, they&#8217;ve gone all out, including three videos using the undead to pitch their products, and their zombieized website is at least a couple of clicks deep before you get to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/10\/25\/101025_searszombies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sears: Where the Undead Shop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-just-plain-silly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9083,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/9083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}