{"id":2010,"date":"2014-03-30T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2014-03-30T20:52:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T20:52:13","slug":"that-was-no-commercial-that-was-my-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/30\/that-was-no-commercial-that-was-my-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"That Was No Commercial!  That Was My Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tz_l6fxfS08?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I really loved my dad. \u00a0So did my kids. \u00a0Our first grandson carries his name. \u00a0There&#8217;s a reason for that, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.babycenter.com\/mom_stories\/013114-new-heartwarming-subaru-ad-is-also-a-nod-to-great-parenting\/\" target=\"_blank\">the magic of this commercial<\/a> is that it understands and validates that reason.<\/p>\n<p>Every great ad is supposed to tell a story, but <a href=\"http:\/\/admusingads.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/flat-tire-subaru-commercial.html\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>\u00a0doesn&#8217;t have to; \u00a0instead, it validates our own. \u00a0For any daughter whose dad believed in her, listened to and argued respectfully with her opinions and loved her unconditionally, especially a daughter whose dad is no longer here, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bubblews.com\/news\/2709730-have-you-seen-the-subaru-commercial\" target=\"_blank\">the magic of this small moment <\/a>\u00a0is that, for 30 seconds, it almost brings him back, allows us to feel again the warm embrace of that \u00a0love.<\/p>\n<p>Of course its main mission is to sell something, I know. \u00a0But I\u2019m grateful that this one, as it sold, gave us something lovely in return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really loved my dad. \u00a0So did my kids. \u00a0Our first grandson carries his name. \u00a0There&#8217;s a reason for that, and the magic of this commercial is that it understands and validates that reason. Every great ad is supposed to tell a story, but this one\u00a0doesn&#8217;t have to; \u00a0instead, it validates our own. \u00a0For any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/30\/that-was-no-commercial-that-was-my-dad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That Was No Commercial!  That Was My Dad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,42,97,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-family","category-television","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-wq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}