{"id":13227,"date":"2016-12-28T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=13227"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:53:47","slug":"how-much-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=13227","title":{"rendered":"How much profit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;having been sitting here bored for the past couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve watched much more tv than I usually do and a thought struck me as I saw the stupid flashlight commercial for the hundredth time&#8230;how much profit is there in a stupid flashlight that you get 2 for 20 bucks? Maybe that question should be how much does it cost to air a commercial that many times? I counted the other day and in just the few hours that I watched, there were over twenty times that the commercial aired&#8230;and that doesn&#8217;t count the other flashlight that they run over with the military truck&#8230;which looks identical to the other one. This whole idea started with the commercials for The Addiction Network&#8230;whose commercials appear to be about half of all of them on tv these days and that same thought came to mind&#8230;how much profit is there in addiction? And how many people are really addicted to things&#8230;it has gotten so bad that they are making fun of themselves in a new commercial&#8230;.just a few thoughts that I wanted to get down before I forget them&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;having been sitting here bored for the past couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve watched much more tv than I usually do and a thought struck me as I saw the stupid flashlight commercial for the hundredth time&#8230;how much profit is there in a stupid flashlight that you get 2 for 20 bucks? Maybe that question should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=13227\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How much profit?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[500,741],"class_list":["post-13227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-commericals","tag-profit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13228,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227\/revisions\/13228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}