{"id":8510,"date":"2016-08-31T18:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T22:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8510"},"modified":"2016-08-31T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T20:04:55","slug":"marco-polo-and-the-llama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2016\/08\/31\/marco-polo-and-the-llama\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Polo and the Llama"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:316px\" ><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NoStupidQuestions\/comments\/4veaof\/why_is_there_a_llama_in_the_marco_polo_geico\/\">Why is there a llama in the &#8216;Marco Polo&#8217; Geico commercial?<\/a><br \/> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/cosmic-jive\/\">u\/cosmic-jive<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NoStupidQuestions\/\">NoStupidQuestions<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Noticed a llama in a commercial and was confused because Marco Polo did not go to South America. Googled &#8220;Marco Polo llama&#8221; and found a Reddit discussion on the topic. Lots of people saying the same as I was thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, I realized that while llamas were not anywhere on Marco Polo&#8217;s journey, the premise is that he is in the USA in an above ground pool in modern times. He&#8217;s not in the Thirteenth Century but the Twenty-First. So, a llama is odd but reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>The surprisingly good thing about running into that post was, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2013\/05\/surprise-is-still-the-most-powerful\">Surprise Is Still the Most Powerful Marketing Tool<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is there a llama in the &#8216;Marco Polo&#8217; Geico commercial? byu\/cosmic-jive inNoStupidQuestions Noticed a llama in a commercial and was confused because Marco Polo did not go to South America. Googled &#8220;Marco Polo llama&#8221; and found a Reddit discussion on the topic. Lots of people saying the same as I was thinking. Eventually, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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}},"categories":[56],"tags":[1057],"class_list":["post-8510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-films-tv","tag-commercials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2dg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}