{"id":4419,"date":"2007-05-08T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4419"},"modified":"2007-05-08T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T20:10:18","slug":"cricket_reebok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/cricket_reebok\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket: Reebok Hearts Dravid and Dhoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wZ67OJaObng\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wZ67OJaObng\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>What, you thought I was a fair-weather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004042.html#comment108311\">cricket pupil<\/a>? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n<p>Mutineer Sandeep sent in this tip after having one of those, &#8220;Hey. What the-? Brown??&#8221; -moments in front of his television:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Saw this commercial while watching NBC primetime TV, and thought I recognized that typical Dravid earnestness saying &#8220;actually, it&#8217;s 229 million&#8230;&#8221;.  was kind of surprised when I paused and found desi cricket ishtars Rahul Dravid and Mahendra Singh Dhoni part of reebok&#8217;s new ad campaign&#8230;<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>As for other notables in the ad:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Stevie Williams rides his skateboard. Cricket players MS Dhoni and Rahul Dravid run together. Soccer player Thierry Henry and actress Emmanuelle Chriqui are paired. Tennis player Nicole Vaidi\u00c5\u00a1ov\u00c3\u00a1 is on the cell phone. Football players DeAngelo Hall and Chad Johnson run together. Track athlete (heptathlon) Carolina Kl\u00c3\u00bcft runs in yellow. Basketball player Allen Iverson and football player Vince Young run together. Track athlete Aries Merritt runs across a skywalk. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendad.com\/ads\/show\/922-Rbk-Run-Easy\">splendAd<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Finally, something about Reebok to appreciate. \ud83d\ude00<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What, you thought I was a fair-weather cricket pupil? \ud83d\ude09 Mutineer Sandeep sent in this tip after having one of those, &#8220;Hey. What the-? Brown??&#8221; -moments in front of his television: Saw this commercial while watching NBC primetime TV, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/cricket_reebok\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,11,4,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}