{"id":462,"date":"2006-01-19T20:35:29","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T01:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2006-01-19T20:36:14","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T01:36:14","slug":"con-airborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/19\/con-airborne\/","title":{"rendered":"Con-Airborne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/airborne.jpg\" title=\"Airborne\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_airborne.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Airborne\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the last couple of months I&#8217;ve noticed that in front of every cash register in every drugstore there are well placed display stands of a product called Airborne. If you haven&#8217;t seen it before, it&#8217;s really clever. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airbornehealth.com\/\">their site<\/a> for additional goodness.<\/p>\n<p>The packaging depicts a fearful person surrounded by coughing, sneezing plane passengers, classroom students, theater goers, etc. cowering under a looming collection of malicious creatures that the viewer is encouraged to interpret as germs, viruses, etc. Even though one looks like the SwineTrek, another has cilia, so they&#8217;re totally biological.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of the display is this statement in huge letters:<br \/>\n&#8220;Created by a second grade school teacher!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes! Brilliant! This company deserves every penny it makes. They take a placebo with negligible manufacturing costs, pour all capital into marketing to fearful, credulous Americans, and watch the money come in on trucks. Yet another, &#8220;why didn&#8217;t I think of that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A tip of the hat to you, Airborne. Well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last couple of months I&#8217;ve noticed that in front of every cash register in every drugstore there are well placed display stands of a product called Airborne. If you haven&#8217;t seen it before, it&#8217;s really clever. Here&#8217;s their site for additional goodness. The packaging depicts a fearful person surrounded by coughing, sneezing plane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiotic","category-nice-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}