{"id":265,"date":"2008-08-01T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2008-08-01T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:29:00","slug":"pr-schme-r-you-say-tomato-i-say-rutabago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/pr-schme-r-you-say-tomato-i-say-rutabago\/","title":{"rendered":"pr, schme-r &#8211; you say tomato, i say rutabago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/spyglass-hotel.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-266\" title=\"The Spyglass Hotel on Clearwater Beach - not a condo in Miami\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/spyglass-hotel-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/spyglass-hotel.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/spyglass-hotel.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/spyglass-hotel.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hollywood gospel says there&#8217;s <strong>no such thing as bad p.r.<\/strong> Unless it&#8217;s no p.r. Which is exactly what happened to Clearwater Wednesday night, as the A&amp;E (originally named for arts and entertainment &#8211; how far we&#8217;ve fallen) cable channel beamed live footage of illusionist Criss Angel &#8216;s escape from a blown to smithereens beachfront hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Except that the on-air program guide described the hotel as a condo. And the location as Miami. Be assured <strong>this was not<\/strong> what the city bargained for when they put up the security and such needed to accomodate a live feed and a crowd estimated at perhaps 50,000. I know this because I&#8217;m right down the road from an event that dominated the local papers. As Casey Stengel said, &#8220;You could look it up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood gospel says there&#8217;s no such thing as bad p.r. Unless it&#8217;s no p.r. Which is exactly what happened to Clearwater Wednesday night, as the A&amp;E (originally named for arts and entertainment &#8211; how far we&#8217;ve fallen) cable channel beamed live footage of illusionist Criss Angel &#8216;s escape from a blown to smithereens beachfront hotel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing-and-promotion","category-public-relations","tag-clearwater"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfUeo-4h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}