{"id":1007,"date":"2008-12-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2008-12-18T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T17:00:00","slug":"great-pink-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/great-pink-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Pink Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what! Daddy-funded, 16-year-old fashion &#8220;designer&#8221; Kira Plastinina <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601085&amp;sid=aLVQx.WfzBNU&amp;refer=europe\">will close most of her 12 U.S. stores<\/a> due to poor demand and the craptastic economy. Now can I stop hearing about her &#8220;talent&#8221;? An obsession with pink is not &#8220;talent.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=kthxbai\">Kthxbai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SUphzCc695I\/AAAAAAAAG2U\/LuhfxQE84Ns\/s1600-h\/Kira-Plastinina-Photo-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SUphzCc695I\/AAAAAAAAG2U\/LuhfxQE84Ns\/s320\/Kira-Plastinina-Photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281141042504726418\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>UPDATED TO ADD: A few words from <a href=\"http:\/\/theshophound.typepad.com\/the_shophound\/2008\/12\/attempted-scandalwho-has-the-hate-on-forkira-plastinina.html\">Shophound<\/a>. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what! Daddy-funded, 16-year-old fashion &#8220;designer&#8221; Kira Plastinina will close most of her 12 U.S. stores due to poor demand and the craptastic economy. Now can I stop hearing about her &#8220;talent&#8221;? An obsession with pink is not &#8220;talent.&#8221; Kthxbai. UPDATED TO ADD: A few words from Shophound.<\/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":[65,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-designers","category-in-the-news","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}