{"id":539,"date":"2012-07-31T18:37:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T23:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=539"},"modified":"2012-07-31T18:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T23:37:12","slug":"doing-good-one-blog-entry-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Doing Good, One Blog Entry at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-544\" title=\"gnomeMap\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gnomeMap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"192\" \/>Long-time readers will recall that I have previously blown the lid off the the <a title=\"Okay, This Is Important\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=208\">roaming accent of the Travelocity Roaming Gnome<\/a>.\u00a0 Well, a quick listen to the current incarnation of the very commercial that set me off in the first place (the one where the gnome goes on about a swimming pool) demonstrates that while the visuals haven&#8217;t changed, the gnome is currently being voiced by someone who has changed the accent again (the nice thing about a mascot whose lips don&#8217;t move, I suppose, is that this sort of thing is easy to do).\u00a0 It is still a Cockney accent, unlike the original gnome, but it has been dialed back to be less aggressively over the top.\u00a0 The inescapable conclusion is that someone at Travelocity world headquarters was reading my blog and saw my post on their commercials, which made them realize how silly they looked.\u00a0 I assume that they didn&#8217;t go all the way to a ridiculous Scandinavian accent as I suggested simply for fear of causing a bit too much confusion among the public, but perhaps the dialect will wander across the North Atlantic in time.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, seeing as how I apparently wield great influence through this blog, I am open to suggestions for my next crusade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time readers will recall that I have previously blown the lid off the the roaming accent of the Travelocity Roaming Gnome.\u00a0 Well, a quick listen to the current incarnation of the very commercial that set me off in the first place (the one where the gnome goes on about a swimming pool) demonstrates that while [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}