{"id":2879,"date":"2010-02-20T20:14:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T01:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2010-05-16T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T16:24:22","slug":"the-census-is-coming-to-you-via-fortune-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/20\/the-census-is-coming-to-you-via-fortune-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Census is Coming To You Via Fortune Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times is reporting the Census Department is <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2011111456_censusfortune18m.html\">using fortune cookies as a marketing device<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/ABPub\/2010\/02\/17\/2011110810.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"363\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tsuechong.com\/\">Tsue Chong Co<\/a>., a Seattle fortune company that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/03\/unfortunate-cookies-the-rejects\/\">also sells &#8220;unfortunate cookies&#8221;<\/a>, is inserting five different census messages into 2 million cookies being shipped to restaurants and groceries across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.<br \/>\nThey have messages such as &#8220;Put down your chopsticks and get involved in Census 2010.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I wondered how much the &#8220;buy&#8221; was from the census side. I assume they paid for that? But the article doesn&#8217;t say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times is reporting the Census Department is using fortune cookies as a marketing device . Tsue Chong Co., a Seattle fortune company that also sells &#8220;unfortunate cookies&#8221;, is inserting five different census messages into 2 million cookies being shipped to restaurants and groceries across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. They have messages such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortune-cookies","tag-census"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-Kr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}