{"id":59,"date":"2006-10-04T09:57:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T01:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/04\/hondas-impossible-dream\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:54:58","slug":"hondas-impossible-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/04\/hondas-impossible-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda&#8217;s &#8220;Impossible Dream&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this commercial at the cinema before <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/04\/nacho-libre-and-talledega-nights\/\">watching Talledega Nights<\/a>. It was great!<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XiBX8MkFkd4\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/world.honda.com\/\">Honda<\/a> seems to have an excellent advertising team with clear direction under their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/world.honda.com\/ThePowerofDreams\/\">The Power of Dreams<\/a>&#8221; motto. Remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cog_%28television_commercial%29\">single-shot &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it nice&#8230; when things&#8230; just work?&#8221; advertisement<\/a> for Honda Accord?<\/p>\n<p>Two more videos after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The famous &#8220;Cog&#8221; commercial (it took over something like 600 takes to get it just right):<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EEF0cg1j35o\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Choir&#8221; commercial (a spiritual successor to the Cog commercial):<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2HYgejEhty0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this commercial at the cinema before watching Talledega Nights. It was great! Honda seems to have an excellent advertising team with clear direction under their &#8220;The Power of Dreams&#8221; motto. Remember the single-shot &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it nice&#8230; when things&#8230; just work?&#8221; advertisement for Honda Accord? Two more videos after the jump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3759,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}