{"id":196,"date":"2007-08-24T11:49:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T15:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/08\/24\/no-butt-cams-for-me-no-ifs-ands-or-buts\/"},"modified":"2010-10-04T19:09:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T23:09:23","slug":"no-butt-cams-for-me-no-ifs-ands-or-buts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/08\/24\/no-butt-cams-for-me-no-ifs-ands-or-buts\/","title":{"rendered":"No Butt Cams For Me &#8212; No Ifs, Ands, Or Buts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re ever in Scottsdale, Arizona and feel the need to <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2007\/08\/21\/4435306-ap.html\">buy jeans, prepare yourself for a\u00a0scary rear view:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Worried that new pair of high-fashion jeans may just make your butt look fat? Now shoppers in one upscale Scottsdale store [The Hub] can check it out for themselves before someone else makes the observation &#8211; using the Butt Cam, a camera positioned just so that&#8217;s connected to a video screen on a dressing room wall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And if that doesn&#8217;t sound bad enough:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The setup also allows Hub employees to display views of their more confident shoppers on flat-screen TVs behind the cash registers for all to see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This\u00a0brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>No Butt Cams For Me &#8212; No Ifs, Ands, Or Buts<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The Butt Cam sure sounds rather crass,<br \/>\nBut it gives you a view of your ass<br \/>\nWhile you&#8217;re trying on jeans.<br \/>\nAnd you know what that means?<br \/>\nIt should tell almost all: &#8220;Take a pass!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(You can find more of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/fashion_and_shopping_humor.html\">fashion and shopping humor here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re ever in Scottsdale, Arizona and feel the need to buy jeans, prepare yourself for a\u00a0scary rear view: Worried that new pair of high-fashion jeans may just make your butt look fat? Now shoppers in one upscale Scottsdale store [The Hub] can check it out for themselves before someone else makes the observation &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,37,42,35,68,86,45],"tags":[1499,1498,1500,161,1502,1501,1504,4937,1503],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-humor","category-fashion-humor","category-limericks","category-marketing-humor","category-physical-appearance","category-polls","category-shopping-humor","tag-butt-cam","tag-butt-camera","tag-buying-jeans","tag-clothes-shopping","tag-dressing-room-cameras","tag-fashion-satire","tag-scottsdale-arizona","tag-shopping-humor","tag-video-screens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}