{"id":8744,"date":"2010-05-22T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T15:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8744"},"modified":"2010-05-22T11:17:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T15:17:34","slug":"rowan-williams-gets-no-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-gets-no-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Williams gets no respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder why. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsbiscuit.com\/2010\/05\/21\/dr-rowan-williams-dropped-as-face-of-pepsi-241\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newsbiscuit<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsbiscuit.com\/images\/1403.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"185\" height=\"134\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PepsiCo have announced today that they are terminating the current contract with Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury as the face of Pepsi Cola. The brand will now be moving away from the centrist Church of England image, in which Pepsi drinkers were portrayed reflecting upon difficult spiritual matters as the product is remarketed \u2018in more of a hip hop direction towards youth and music\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Although a number of global brands have previously benefited from major celebrity endorsements, PepsiCo have had been forced to admit that choosing an elderly Anglican archbishop has not provided the massive boost that they had hoped for. \u2018Oh it\u2019s very easy to be wise after the event\u2019 said Pepsi Co\u2019s Head of Marketing Chad Taylor. \u2018Suddenly everyone seems to be an expert in celebrity endorsement and claim they knew this would never work.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder why. From Newsbiscuit: PepsiCo have announced today that they are terminating the current contract with Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury as the face of Pepsi Cola. The brand will now be moving away from the centrist Church &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-gets-no-respect\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[2241],"class_list":["post-8744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}