{"id":9445,"date":"2013-02-11T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=9445"},"modified":"2013-02-11T08:53:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T13:53:48","slug":"isaac-asimovs-still-an-internet-pitchman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/11\/isaac-asimovs-still-an-internet-pitchman\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Asimov&#8217;s still an Internet pitchman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were wondering, this morning, 48 hours after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2013\/02\/09\/wtf-why-is-isaac-asimovs-face-being-used-to-shill-in-a-huffington-post-ad\/\">I first noticed it<\/a>, the face of Isaac Asimov is still being used to tout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pimsleurapproach.com\/\">Pimsleur Approach<\/a> on the front page of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/\">Huffington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only today, poor Isaac is doing it twice!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/HuffingtonPostPimsleurApproachIsaacAsimov832AM021113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/HuffingtonPostPimsleurApproachIsaacAsimov832AM021113-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"HuffingtonPostPimsleurApproachIsaacAsimov832AM021113\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/HuffingtonPostPimsleurApproachIsaacAsimov832AM021113-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/HuffingtonPostPimsleurApproachIsaacAsimov832AM021113-1024x513.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/HuffingtonPostPimsleurApproachIsaacAsimov832AM021113.jpg 1630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that since it&#8217;s no longer a weekend, someone at one of those two companies will quickly take notice of the fact that this is presumably an unauthorized usage and quickly put an end to it.<\/p>\n<p>But what do you think the chances are of that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were wondering, this morning, 48 hours after I first noticed it, the face of Isaac Asimov is still being used to tout Pimsleur Approach on the front page of the Huffington Post. Only today, poor Isaac is doing it twice! I&#8217;m hoping that since it&#8217;s no longer a weekend, someone at one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-9445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-isaac-asimov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}