{"id":4249,"date":"2020-05-20T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2020-05-19T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:14:09","slug":"day-4-5-going-off-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=4249","title":{"rendered":"Day 4.5 &#8211; going off script"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/0FA73AAD-C0AA-4D81-8E64-70655BA863AD.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4250\" width=\"323\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/0FA73AAD-C0AA-4D81-8E64-70655BA863AD.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/0FA73AAD-C0AA-4D81-8E64-70655BA863AD-300x297.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m deviating from the Facebook post order here and inserting another album I also wanted to put up because Stan influenced my outlook on humour, on advertising and on satire. And  because my blog, my rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything today in the genre of spoofs and take-offs comes from this one man. Seriously.  More importantly, this is the man who made funny a big part of ads. Every single Super Bowl ad you love for a theatre of the absurd punch line can be traced back to Stan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless you are a member of the rag tag gypsies currently making independent podcasts or a long time radio fan, you\u2019ve probably never heard of this guy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/8B15E7A2-B21E-4ADE-A0A5-A2D5841E2124.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4252\" width=\"289\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/8B15E7A2-B21E-4ADE-A0A5-A2D5841E2124.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/8B15E7A2-B21E-4ADE-A0A5-A2D5841E2124-241x300.jpeg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Because he was radio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s where the imagination works best. If you\u2019ve ever heard the sound clip of Lake Michigan   filled with hot chocolate, topped with a mountain of whipped cream and a giant maraschino cherry towed in by the Canadian Air Force, you\u2019ve heard Stan Freberg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you haven\u2019t&#8230;well, you just pictured it, right? And no photograph will ever match the one inside your head right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a pioneer of satire. It was a surgical tool in his hands, for dissecting what was absurd in popular culture of his day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought of him today when I heard the current president of the United States call a new weapon of war a \u201csuper duper missile.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh man. What a perfect set up for Stan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Stan Freberg - Stretching the Imagination\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ppZ57EeX6vE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m deviating from the Facebook post order here and inserting another album I also wanted to put up because Stan influenced my outlook on humour, on advertising and on satire. And because my blog, my rules. Everything today in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=4249\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[834,1],"tags":[843,839,842,840,841,844],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4255,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions\/4255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}