{"id":477,"date":"2010-06-01T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=477"},"modified":"2010-06-01T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T15:00:14","slug":"merch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/06\/merch\/","title":{"rendered":"Merch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend across the pond sent this over this weekend, from the Gap in Knightsbridge: <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LifesAPitchTShirt.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/LifesAPitchTShirt.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"667\" width=\"500\" \/> <\/p>\n<div>And I think I&#8217;ve neglected to post about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lifes-A-Pitch-Board-Game\/dp\/B002D4KR22\">Life&#8217;s a Pitch game<\/a>, which several kind readers have brought to my attention. And if I have already posted about it, I&#8217;m posting about it again. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LifesaPitch1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/LifesaPitch1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"500\" width=\"500\" \/>&#8220;The WILD Game of Defending the Ridiculous.&#8221; I actually can&#8217;t think of a more apt description of what I do for a living. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LIfesAPitch2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/LIfesAPitch2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"500\" width=\"500\" \/>My summer intern Emily and I have spent the last 30 minutes brainstorming what a classical music PR Life&#8217;s a Pitch game would actually look like. What we have so far is a combination of Trivial Pursuit, Dungeons &amp; Dragons, and Oregon Trail. She&#8217;s asked me, &#8220;Is this a game of skill or chance?&#8221; and &#8220;Is the goal of the game to get more famous clients or to make your clients more famous?&#8221;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>So, basically The Two Questions in the PR biz. Great Teaching Moments in Summer Internships Via Fake Board Games. <\/p>\n<p>Watch this space, we&#8217;re really going to make this thing. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend across the pond sent this over this weekend, from the Gap in Knightsbridge: And I think I&#8217;ve neglected to post about the Life&#8217;s a Pitch game, which several kind readers have brought to my attention. And if I have already posted about it, I&#8217;m posting about it again. &#8220;The WILD Game of Defending [&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-477","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\/477","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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}