{"id":475,"date":"2010-05-27T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=475"},"modified":"2010-05-27T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T13:00:42","slug":"fun_with_tragic_oil_spills_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/05\/fun_with_tragic_oil_spills_and\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with tragic oil spills and PR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has everyone seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BPGlobalPR\">British Petroleum &#8220;PR&#8221; Twitter feed<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"status-content\"><span class=\"entry-content\">A lot of people are asking if we could have prevented this mess.  Honestly, we have no clue.  Our hindsight is 20\/80.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23bpcares\" title=\"#bpcares\" class=\"tweet-url hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow\">#bpcares<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"meta entry-meta\" data=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<a class=\"entry-date\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BPGlobalPR\/status\/14812408550\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"published timestamp\" data=\"{time:'Thu May 27 04:24:46 +0000 2010'}\">about 13 hours ago<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span>via web<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"meta entry-meta\" data=\"{}\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"status-content\"><span class=\"entry-content\"><br \/>A bird just stole my sandwich! You deserve everything you get, nature!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23bpcares\" title=\"#bpcares\" class=\"tweet-url hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow\">#bpcares<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<a class=\"entry-date\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BPGlobalPR\/status\/14778866144\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"published timestamp\" data=\"{time:'Wed May 26 17:57:44 +0000 2010'}\">about 23 hours ago<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nvia Twitterrific<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"status-content\"><span class=\"entry-content\">Eating at a very expensive restaurant and spilled salad dressing on my pants.  Not sure how to tackle this.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"meta entry-meta\" data=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<a class=\"entry-date\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BPGlobalPR\/status\/14714068717\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"published timestamp\" data=\"{time:'Tue May 25 19:55:03 +0000 2010'}\">3:55 PM May 25th<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span>via web<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"status-content\"><span class=\"entry-content\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"meta entry-meta\" data=\"{}\"><span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"meta entry-meta\" data=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"meta entry-meta\" data=\"{}\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"meta entry-meta\" data=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"status-content\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"status-content\"><span class=\"entry-content\">Please help us with rebranding.  We&#8217;re not calling it an &#8220;oil spill&#8221; anymore, now it&#8217;s a &#8220;Southern Fun Party&#8221;.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23bpcares\" title=\"#bpcares\" class=\"tweet-url hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow\">#bpcares<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"meta entry-meta\" data=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<a class=\"entry-date\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BPGlobalPR\/status\/14732318307\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"published timestamp\" data=\"{time:'Wed May 26 01:48:03 +0000 2010'}\">9:48 PM May 25th<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span>via web<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/05\/27\/bp-public-relations-twitter\/\"><i>Mashable<\/i><\/a>, who has an interview with &#8220;Terry,&#8221; points out that the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BP_America\">actual BP feed<\/a> has about 7,000 followers, while the fake one has 57,000. <\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re slightly on the subject, why is Larry King&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kingsthings\">Twitter profile<\/a> photo so crazy?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LarryKingTwitter.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/LarryKingTwitter.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"432\" width=\"500\" \/><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"status-content\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has everyone seen the British Petroleum &#8220;PR&#8221; Twitter feed? A lot of people are asking if we could have prevented this mess. Honestly, we have no clue. Our hindsight is 20\/80. #bpcares about 13 hours ago via webA bird just stole my sandwich! You deserve everything you get, nature!!! #bpcares about 23 hours ago via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}