{"id":59778,"date":"2016-08-02T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59778"},"modified":"2016-07-31T19:02:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T00:02:48","slug":"59778","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59778","title":{"rendered":"Change In Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/target-leaving-indycar-after-27-seasons-with-chip-ganassi\/388377691\/\">Target to quit sponsoring Indy cars<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Why quit? \u00a0\u00a0They had a winning team, which means eyeballs on logo all season long.\u00a0 Why would you give up advertising like that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Wrong eyeballs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">The people who watch racing tend to be White Christian beer-drinking men.\u00a0 Those people are not the \u201ctarget\u201d audience.\u00a0 You can\u2019t buy a spark plug or a shotgun shell at Target, a 2&#215;4 or a necktie.\u00a0 The chain is focused on women, gays and People Whose Lives Matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Look for Target to shift the advertising money to a more politically correct area.\u00a0 I wonder what?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">My guess: \u00a0a Beyonc\u00e9 tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Target to quit sponsoring Indy cars. \u00a0Why quit? \u00a0\u00a0They had a winning team, which means eyeballs on logo all season long.\u00a0 Why would you give up advertising like that? \u00a0Wrong eyeballs. \u00a0The people who watch racing tend to be White Christian beer-drinking men.\u00a0 Those people are not the \u201ctarget\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59786,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59778\/revisions\/59786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}