{"id":714,"date":"2005-11-27T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=714"},"modified":"2007-01-20T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T21:50:40","slug":"ive-heard-of-product-tie-ins-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/ive-heard-of-product-tie-ins-but","title":{"rendered":"I’ve heard of product tie-ins, but…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watching the Giants-Seahawks game on Fox right now, and I’m just wondering: given that Washington state is currently searching for a couple of convicts<\/a> who busted out during the weekend, maybe the Fox guys could stop promoting Prison Break<\/a> so heavily during the broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watching the Giants-Seahawks game on Fox right now, and I’m just wondering: given that Washington state is currently searching for a couple of convicts who busted out during the weekend, maybe the Fox guys could stop promoting Prison Break so heavily during the broadcast.<\/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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-bw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10900,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-247-vanda-krefft","url_meta":{"origin":714,"position":0},"title":"Episode 247 – Vanda Krefft","author":"Gil","date":"December 4, 2017","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 247: Vanda Krefft \"The most interesting question about Fox is, 'What do you do when you realize you're not going to be the person that you want to be?'\" Quick: Who is the \"Fox\" in 20th Century Fox? 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