{"id":3596,"date":"2015-03-25T11:08:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2015-03-25T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:08:24","slug":"the-despotic-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/the-despotic-clown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Despotic Clown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have given you nightmares&#8230; Taco Bell has launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/news\/advertising-branding\/ad-day-taco-bell-launches-cold-war-against-mcdonalds-propaganda-imagery-163643\">propaganda campaign against the Routine Republic.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  In the three-minute centerpiece ad below, McDonald&#8217;s affable but intrinsically creepy mascot is reimagined as a sunken-eyed Stalinist clown (though perhaps bearing closer resemblance to Mao). He rules over a small army of look-alikes and an oppressed proletariat in a decrepit, cloistered city with a beefy security apparatus. Run-of-the-mill breakfast sandwiches are his preferred method of subjugation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The three-minute video is worth watching, even if it is just an ad for Taco Bell.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kuap4wIGSLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The print work for this campaign is marvelous and I want to print and mount the entire set. Here&#8217;s a taste.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/despot-ronald-3.jpg?w=629\" alt=\"Same Breakfast\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To see the rest of the print work head on over to Adweek.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/news\/advertising-branding\/ad-day-taco-bell-launches-cold-war-against-mcdonalds-propaganda-imagery-163643\">Ad of the Day: Taco Bell Launches Cold War Against McDonald&#8217;s With Propaganda Imagery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have given you nightmares&#8230; Taco Bell has launched a propaganda campaign against the Routine Republic. In the three-minute centerpiece ad below, McDonald&#8217;s affable but intrinsically creepy mascot is reimagined as a sunken-eyed Stalinist clown (though perhaps bearing closer resemblance to Mao). He rules over a small army of look-alikes and an oppressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - The Despotic Clown has always been at war the hexagonal breakfast food.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[286],"tags":[57,815,814],"class_list":["post-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shared","tag-advertising","tag-dystopia","tag-taco-bell","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/despotic-clown.jpg?fit=652%2C418&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3600,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions\/3600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}