{"id":613,"date":"2008-10-22T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=613"},"modified":"2008-10-22T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T15:00:25","slug":"nike-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Nike Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I was <a title=\"linkylink\" href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=304\" target=\"_self\">smitten with one of Nike&#8217;s Leave Nothing<\/a> commercials. I am not a person who purchases sportswear, plays sports, nor watches sports. But somehow they got me to pay close attention to their commercial.<\/p>\n<p>They struck gold a second time with another <a title=\"Good Stuff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_uiWyly2oMc\" target=\"_blank\">Leave Nothing commercial entitled &#8220;Fate.&#8221;<\/a> This time around the vignettes follow a boy growing up, becoming more agile, and eventually becoming a football star. It is a well coreographed visual narrative with a befitting audible narrative. The tune is a sublte remix of Ennio Morricone&#8217;s song L\u00b4Estasi Dell\u00b4Oro, or for you non Italian speakers, The Ecstasy of Gold. Metallica fans will no doubt be familiar with the tune and\/or falsely claim that it is a ripoff of their work. The non-metalhead will recognize the theme from the excellent 1966 western film <a title=\"imdb entry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060196\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bravo Nike. You get a pat on the butt. But I&#8217;m still not buying your gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I was smitten with one of Nike&#8217;s Leave Nothing commercials. I am not a person who purchases sportswear, plays sports, nor watches sports. But somehow they got me to pay close attention to their commercial. They struck gold a second time with another Leave Nothing commercial entitled &#8220;Fate.&#8221; This time around the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nike Strikes Back<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-geek","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}