{"id":1454,"date":"2005-03-08T10:13:05","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T10:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/03\/08\/un_landmine_commerical_wont_air_in_us.html"},"modified":"2005-03-08T10:13:05","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T10:13:05","slug":"un_landmine_commerical_wont_air_in_us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/03\/08\/un_landmine_commerical_wont_air_in_us.html","title":{"rendered":"U.N. landmine commerical won&#8217;t air in US."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoplandmines.org\/slm\/videos\/kickoff_hi.wmv\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/images\/_images2_landmines2.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a>A U.N. commercial depicts American girls playing in a soccer match. A girl steps on a landmine and there&#8217;s a big explosion. Kids get blown apart. CNN and other networks don&#8217;t want to air the ad.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion appears to kill and injure some girls, sparking panic and chaos among parents and other children. Shrieks of horror are heard through much of the spot, and a father is shown cradling his daughter&#8217;s lifeless body, moments after celebrating a goal she had scored.<\/p>\n<p>It closes with a tag line reading: &#8220;If there were landmines here, would you stand for them anywhere? Help the U.N. eradicate landmines everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<i>Copied from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/03\/07\/un_lan dmine_commeric.html\">BoingBoing<\/a> because everyone needs to see this<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.N. commercial depicts American girls playing in a soccer match. A girl steps on a landmine and there&#8217;s a big explosion. Kids get blown apart. CNN and other networks don&#8217;t want to air the ad. The explosion appears to kill and injure some girls, sparking panic and chaos among parents and other children. Shrieks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}