{"id":6,"date":"2010-09-28T23:35:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T07:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/?p=6"},"modified":"2010-09-28T23:50:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T07:50:40","slug":"no-biggie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/2010\/09\/28\/no-biggie\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill-bored?  Bill-not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about billboards is that they&#8217;re BIG! \u00a0So honestly, it&#8217;s just really difficult to ignore them when you&#8217;re passing by them. \u00a0Unless you&#8217;re a nervous driver, prone to zoning out, or a fugitive who must keep his head down and therefore cannot look up and check out anything over his head. \u00a0Otherwise, billboards are pretty much fair game for all-out noticing and enjoying. \u00a0And since they&#8217;re so obnoxiously humongous in their brand promotions and advertisements, you wouldn&#8217;t think that companies would want to take this type of sign one step further&#8230;WRONG! \u00a0A lot of billboards are starting to add multimedia and other 3D aspects to their spaces. \u00a0Not only is this insanely cool but it manages to grab the attention of passersby even more (impossible? \u00a0never). \u00a0Here are some of the best examples I&#8217;ve seen so far:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/files\/2010\/09\/Heinz-Tabasco-Fire-billboard-412x334.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7\" title=\"Heinz Tabasco Fire billboard\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/files\/2010\/09\/Heinz-Tabasco-Fire-billboard-412x334-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/files\/2010\/09\/Heinz-Tabasco-Fire-billboard-412x334-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/files\/2010\/09\/Heinz-Tabasco-Fire-billboard-412x334.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves fire! (I&#8217;m not a pyromaniac. \u00a0I swear) \u00a0I think it was such a good idea for Heinz to take advantage of this attention-grabbing quality and promote their new line of HAWT Heinz Tabasco ketchup. \u00a0If I saw this billboard, I would definitely be shamelessly drawn towards it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another really cool one!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/files\/2010\/09\/tailgating-billboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8\" title=\"Tailgating billboard\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/files\/2010\/09\/tailgating-billboard-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/files\/2010\/09\/tailgating-billboard-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/files\/2010\/09\/tailgating-billboard-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/files\/2010\/09\/tailgating-billboard.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about billboards is that they&#8217;re BIG! \u00a0So honestly, it&#8217;s just really difficult to ignore them when you&#8217;re passing by them. \u00a0Unless you&#8217;re a nervous driver, prone to zoning out, or a fugitive who must keep his head down and therefore cannot look up and check out anything over his head. \u00a0Otherwise, billboards are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3790,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}