{"id":28347,"date":"2015-01-13T22:43:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T03:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=28347"},"modified":"2015-01-14T01:22:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T06:22:41","slug":"no-soup-dress-for-you-yes-soup-dress-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/no-soup-dress-for-you-yes-soup-dress-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"No Soup Dress for You. Yes Soup Dress for Me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The humdrum fashion at Sunday&#8217;s Golden Globes &#8212; everyone wore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/photos\/14688\/biggest-red-carpet-trends-at-the-2015-golden-globes\/449629\" target=\"_blank\">red! silver! cut-out white gowns!<\/a> &#8212; caused me to pay more and more attention to a Progresso Light commercial I kept seeing that night. In it, a woman is pleasantly surprised by the rich taste of her low-calorie soup. She&#8217;s watching her diet because she needs to fit into a hideous green bridesmaid dress.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28348\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l78Lk8i-Sds\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28348\" class=\"wp-image-28348 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/soupdress.jpg\" alt=\"soupdress\" width=\"498\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/soupdress.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/soupdress-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click the screenshot to see the commercial.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over the course of the evening, this dress started looking really good to me compared to the unremarkable red carpet. I tweeted Progresso.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28351\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/progressotweets.jpg\" alt=\"progressotweets\" width=\"498\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/progressotweets.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/progressotweets-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Progresso, please send me this dress and and a 2016 Golden Globes ticket so that when Ryan Seacrest asks me, &#8220;Who are you wearing?&#8221; I can answer &#8220;Soup!&#8221; <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The humdrum fashion at Sunday&#8217;s Golden Globes &#8212; everyone wore red! silver! cut-out white gowns! &#8212; caused me to pay more and more attention to a Progresso Light commercial I kept seeing that night. In it, a woman is pleasantly surprised by the rich taste of her low-calorie soup. She&#8217;s watching her diet because she&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/no-soup-dress-for-you-yes-soup-dress-for-me\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[387,61,661],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-awards-shows","category-dresses","category-golden-globes","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28347","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=28347"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28355,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28347\/revisions\/28355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}