{"id":197592,"date":"2008-01-23T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/adventures-in-unfortunate-branding\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T03:37:00","slug":"adventures-in-unfortunate-branding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/adventures-in-unfortunate-branding\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Unfortunate Branding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, when Allegheny Airlines, aka Agony Airlines, announced it&#8217;s name change to USAir, the name &#8220;Useless Air&#8221; was coined at <strong>the press conference announcing the new name<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Apple just announced a new iPod in pink, and journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/digitaldaily.allthingsd.com\/20080122\/apple-announces-peptopod\/\">John Paczkowski in a flash of genius<\/a>, has named it <span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><strong>iPod Pepto<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img299.imageshack.us\/img299\/2426\/peptopodjo8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bummer of a birth mark, Hal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, when Allegheny Airlines, aka Agony Airlines, announced it&#8217;s name change to USAir, the name &#8220;Useless Air&#8221; was coined at the press conference announcing the new name. Well, Apple just announced a new iPod in pink, and journalist John Paczkowski in a flash of genius, has named it iPod Pepto. Bummer of a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1100,1002,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}