{"id":46817,"date":"2020-01-22T21:54:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46817"},"modified":"2020-08-12T21:55:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T01:55:09","slug":"why-does-it-always-have-to-end-in-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46817","title":{"rendered":"Why does it always have to end in death?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-46818 \" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mrpeanut.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"280\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/pop-culture-news\/mr-peanut-dies-super-bowl-ad-causing-nut-lovers-everywhere-n1120441\">Mr. Peanut died in a television commercial<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure why it was necessary to have to outright kill him, but it\u2019s clearly a ploy by Planters that is going to lead to something bigger, as it\u2019s speculated that they\u2019re going to have some degree of follow up in a commercial during the Super Bowl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But come on now, killing Mr. Peanut?\u00a0 In favor of has-beens and unknowns like Wesley Snipes and Matt Walsh (who?). Why\u2019s it always got to end in death?\u00a0 And why do Blade and the Tostitos guy get to live over Mr. Peanut?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No matter.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a tremendous amount of words to go on about this as I thought I did when I first heard the news.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s more of being perplexed at the notion of killing an icon of my childhood that triggered the response in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But if anything at all, I can at least post this classic gif from <em>the Simpsons<\/em> where Mr. Peanut gains a measure of revenge on people who have been eating his brethren throughout history.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Mr. Peanut died in a television commercial.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure why it was necessary to have to outright kill him, but it\u2019s clearly a ploy by Planters that is going to lead to something bigger, as it\u2019s speculated that they\u2019re going to have some degree of follow up in a commercial during the Super &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46817\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why does it always have to end in death?<\/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":[1],"tags":[159,49],"class_list":["post-46817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-advertising","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46819,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46817\/revisions\/46819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}