{"id":12240,"date":"2012-07-17T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=12240"},"modified":"2013-02-07T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:13:18","slug":"shell-shocked-and-laughing-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/culture\/politics\/shell-shocked-and-laughing-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell Shocked And Laughing Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to give a quick\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XZxzJGgox_E\">shout-out<\/a>\u00a0to the big-wigs over at Shell. They thought it best to generate an online discussion of oil spill\u2019s damaging effects of the environment and willingly let the internet troll and slander their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/news\/2012\/07\/16\/groups-say-shell-drill-ship-mishap-fuels-concerns\/XDtlvUoNCwS0RhfoMxU83M\/story.html\">sleek reputation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what I wanted to say, but the Arctic Ready website is a clever ruse\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.displayfakefoods.com\/store\/pc\/Fake-Garnishes-and-Condiments-c32.htm\">garnished<\/a>\u00a0with pretend legal action to sweeten the illegitimate morsel. Rumors circulating the internet purport that it was arranged by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theyesmen.org\/\">The Yes Men<\/a>; a group dedicated to societal education through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chevron-weagree.com\/\">hilarious<\/a>\u00a0(effective) trolling. The hoax forced attention onto Shell\u2019s drilling in the Arctic Circle and its callous demeanor towards indigenous wildlife, all through a sly wink and nod.<\/p>\n<p>The advertisements are successful as I\u2019ve already made one and spread it to my friends. Surely, those friends will spread it to their friends, and they theirs. I can only assume that a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=20xsntIVokk\">real legal battle<\/a>\u00a0will begin shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to give a quick\u00a0shout-out\u00a0to the big-wigs over at Shell. They thought it best to generate an online discussion of oil spill\u2019s damaging effects of the environment and willingly let the internet troll and slander their\u00a0sleek reputation. That\u2019s what I wanted to say, but the Arctic Ready website is a clever ruse\u00a0garnished\u00a0with pretend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":12369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,908,730],"tags":[3073,867,3071,2857,3072],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16333,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240\/revisions\/16333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}