{"id":675,"date":"2012-10-29T07:49:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T18:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=675"},"modified":"2012-10-29T07:49:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T18:49:16","slug":"if-you-dont-buy-from-me-ill-shout-even-louder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If you don\u2019t buy from me, I\u2019ll shout even louder\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=673\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-673\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-673\" title=\"Mega2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mega2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mega2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mega2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mega2.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As a child, I was known for being rather quiet.\u00a0 I\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0go in for a lot of screaming and shouting.\u00a0 And I\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0much like it when those around me shouted either.\u00a0 I particularly disliked it when they shouted <em>at<\/em> me.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing much has changed over the years.\u00a0 Screaming kids, strident polemicists (and politicians), shouting advertisers, they all cause me to tune out and switch off. \u00a0The more they shout, the less I listen.<\/p>\n<p>And I do not seem to be alone in my aversion to this totally unnecessary noise.\u00a0 According to a recent survey, most people find commercials with presenters who shout \u2013 or commercials with loud shouting voice overs \u2013 one of the most annoying things about TV.<\/p>\n<p>I was, therefore, more than a little surprised to hear a man whose company is currently responsible for some of TV\u2019s most shouty commercials saying \u2013 in a very loud voice \u2013 that he only does it because \u2018<em>IT GETS RESULTS!!!<\/em>\u00a0 <em>IT WORKS!!!<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Someone, please tell me, quietly, that he is mistaken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child, I was known for being rather quiet.\u00a0 I\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0go in for a lot of screaming and shouting.\u00a0 And I\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0much like it when those around me shouted either.\u00a0 I particularly disliked it when they shouted at me. Nothing much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=675\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}