{"id":492,"date":"2011-02-06T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T21:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/02\/06\/110206_pregame\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T21:57:16","slug":"110206_pregame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/02\/06\/110206_pregame\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Ads: Pre-Game Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re about ninety minutes away from kick-off, which gives me plenty of time to do the usual in-depth preparation that I&#8217;m known for. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m watching something on The Food Channel, working up an appetite for Super Bowl snax.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think The Food Channel will be showing any of the Super Bowl ads, but I feel confident in making a few predictions for what&#8217;s coming up. To wit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There will be plenty of ads featuring animals acting like humans, and being really hilarious in the process.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">There will also be plenty of ads featuring humans acting like animals, and being much less hilarious in the process. (I&#8217;m thinking of you, Bud Light.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">Kids will be big, and guys will be big kids.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">At least one sports figure will appear in a commercial that will cause him (or her) to wonder, tomorrow, &#8220;what was I thinking?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">GoDaddy.com will be in a class by itself, that is to say, class-less.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let the games begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re about ninety minutes away from kick-off, which gives me plenty of time to do the usual in-depth preparation that I&#8217;m known for. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m watching something on The Food Channel, working up an appetite for Super Bowl snax. I don&#8217;t think The Food Channel will be showing any of the Super Bowl ads,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/02\/06\/110206_pregame\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Super Bowl Ads: Pre-Game Predictions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[38,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-sports","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\/492","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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9176,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/9176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}