{"id":959,"date":"2009-07-07T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T11:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/07\/burger-king-blows-it.html"},"modified":"2009-07-07T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T11:45:50","slug":"burger-king-blows-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/07\/burger-king-blows-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Burger King Blows It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"burger<\/a><\/span>As a parent of two teenage boys, we’re in a constant struggle to figure out what movies or TV shows are appropriate. (The latest debate: Bruno). It’s a struggle, and the source of much friction, but we figure it’s our parental responsibility to try to regulate sexual content.
\nThen I saw this Burger King campaign and thought…. what’s the point? Why do we bother? We can block HBO but Burger King is right there in our face with an image of an attractive, shocked looking woman, with bright red lipstick, opening up her mouth to take in the “super seven incher.”
\nUPDATE 7\/8, 9:56: Burger King says <\/a>the ad is running only in Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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