{"id":272930,"date":"2010-02-03T15:22:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20120a8590a57970b"},"modified":"2010-02-03T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:22:47","slug":"progressives-spokeswoman-flo-needs-a-sidekick-will-it-be-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/272930","title":{"rendered":"Progressive&#8217;s spokeswoman Flo needs a sidekick. Will it be you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"265\" style=\"margin: 0pt 8pt 0pt 0px; float: left;\" width=\"320\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4dgiHVOWfyM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4dgiHVOWfyM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"320\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Progressive Insurance is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpflo.com\/\" >looking for a sidekick for Flo<\/a>, its long-running spokeswoman (<a href=\"http:\/\/adweek.blogs.com\/adfreak\/2008\/12\/progressives-flo-im-not-trying-to-be-sexy-.html\" >and sex symbol to some<\/a>). Because this is 2010, Progressive is asking the unwashed masses to explain, in a minute or so on video, why they should get the nod. So far, there are no clear winners among the 500-plus submissions, though a woman named Lytle (shown here) is leading with more than a quarter-million views over at the HelpFlo.com site. (Lytle explains that she could sell to Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, has good dance moves and could be a backup singer.) My personal favorite, though, is a woman named Sara Morabi, who received the comment, &quot;This girl is so cute&#8230;I like how she lights up the screen,&quot; leading Morabi to counter: &quot;Thanks for the above comment, mom. Never leave your computer running when your mom is around.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by Todd Wasserman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive Insurance is looking for a sidekick for Flo, its long-running spokeswoman (and sex symbol to some). Because this is 2010, Progressive is asking the unwashed masses to explain, in a minute or so on video, why they should get the nod. So far, there are no clear winners among the 500-plus submissions, though a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}