{"id":122,"date":"2005-07-12T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2005-07-13T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T22:15:08","slug":"hp-stop-sending-bad-messages-to-my-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/general\/hp-stop-sending-bad-messages-to-my-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"HP, Stop Sending Bad Messages to My Kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My kids are impressionable video game addicts and tech junkies, so you can imagine my dismay at the latest TV commercial from Hewlett Packard.<\/p>\n<p>The spot shows college students in a classroom listening to a professor giving a science lecture. <\/p>\n<p>Voice-over narration suggests that with an HP Pavillion Notebook, you can sit in class, but instead of paying attention to the teacher, listen to music or watch DVDs.<\/p>\n<p>That?s good for HP, who will sell more notebooks to kids motivated to get them for this reason; not so good for the students or the parents footing the tuition bill.<\/p>\n<p>Do any of you have a similar reaction to the HP commercial and its negative message? Or am I being too much of a crank here? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My kids are impressionable video game addicts and tech junkies, so you can imagine my dismay at the latest TV commercial from Hewlett Packard. The spot shows college students in a classroom listening to a professor giving a science lecture. Voice-over narration suggests that with an HP Pavillion Notebook, you can sit in class, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}