{"id":363744,"date":"2010-02-25T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002601"},"modified":"2010-02-25T16:34:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:34:04","slug":"colorado-springs-billboard-company-says-no-puppet-boobs-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/363744","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Springs Billboard Company Says &#8220;No Puppet Boobs Allowed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/022510-004-lucy-the-slut-thumb-294x261-37470.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Lucy the Slut is one of the puppets in the musical &#8220;Avenue Q,&#8221; and like the other puppet characters she&#8217;s frequently displayed in their advertising. But not in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where a billboard company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation-and-world\/la-na-puppet-cleavage24-2010feb24,0,2359413.story\">refused to put up ads<\/a> showing Lucy&#8217;s cleavage. An exec for the billboard company told the local paper, &#8220;If I have to explain it to my 4-year-old or my grandmother, we don&#8217;t put it up.&#8221; Hey four-year-old, it&#8217;s a puppet. Hey grandma, those are boobs. Problem solved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation-and-world\/la-na-puppet-cleavage24-2010feb24,0,2359413.story\">&#8220;&#8216;Avenue Q&#8217; puppet too busty for Colorado Springs&#8221;<\/a> [Los Angeles Times via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/cheat-sheet\/item\/puppet-too-hot-for-colorado-springs\/avenue-q\/\">The Daily Beast<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy the Slut is one of the puppets in the musical &#8220;Avenue Q,&#8221; and like the other puppet characters she&#8217;s frequently displayed in their advertising. But not in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where a billboard company refused to put up ads showing Lucy&#8217;s cleavage. An exec for the billboard company told the local paper, &#8220;If I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363744","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\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}