{"id":9461,"date":"2013-02-11T16:39:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=9461"},"modified":"2013-02-11T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:39:02","slug":"pimsleur-approach-addresses-the-isaac-asimov-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/11\/pimsleur-approach-addresses-the-isaac-asimov-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimsleur Approach addresses the Isaac Asimov issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard back a little while ago from whoever runs the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PimsleurTweets\">Pimsleur Approach Twitter feed<\/a> in response to my contacting them about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2013\/02\/09\/wtf-why-is-isaac-asimovs-face-being-used-to-shill-in-a-huffington-post-ad\/\">their company&#8217;s presumably unauthorized use of  Isaac Asimov<\/a> in its advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what they had to say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PimsleurApproachTweet1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PimsleurApproachTweet1-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"PimsleurApproachTweet1\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PimsleurApproachTweet1-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PimsleurApproachTweet1.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PimsleurApproachTweet2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PimsleurApproachTweet2-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"PimsleurApproachTweet2\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PimsleurApproachTweet2-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PimsleurApproachTweet2.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PimsleurApproachTweet3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PimsleurApproachTweet3-300x126.jpg\" alt=\"PimsleurApproachTweet3\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PimsleurApproachTweet3-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PimsleurApproachTweet3.jpg 773w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to hear that the Good Doctor will be set free. Still waiting to hear back to my follow-up question asking what bizarre mix-up could have led to this happening in the first place, though&#8212;after all, Asimov didn&#8217;t get there on his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard back a little while ago from whoever runs the Pimsleur Approach Twitter feed in response to my contacting them about their company&#8217;s presumably unauthorized use of Isaac Asimov in its advertising. Here&#8217;s what they had to say. I&#8217;m happy to hear that the Good Doctor will be set free. Still waiting to hear [&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-9461","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\/9461","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=9461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}