{"id":644558,"date":"2013-02-28T16:23:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T21:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=219405"},"modified":"2013-02-28T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T21:23:50","slug":"the-weather-channel-resorts-to-dickish-behavior-to-promote-its-new-android-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644558","title":{"rendered":"The Weather Channel Resorts to Dickish Behavior to Promote Its New Android App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/apps\/android\">new Weather Channel app for Android<\/a> lets you know exactly when weather events like rain or snow are supposed to start. Cool, right?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s not cool is installing sprinklers inside a bus shelter and drenching everyone inside because they didn&#8217;t have the app so they didn&#8217;t know when the rain was going to start.<\/p>\n<p>Get it? <\/p>\n<p>Sure, they&#8217;re probably actors and they look like they&#8217;re laughing in the end. But you can&#8217;t tell me that the guy wearing the headphones is anything other than incredibly pissed off about the whole situation.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6M-JQktwrXU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrants.com\/2013\/02\/weather-channel-soaks-bus-commuters.php\">Adrants<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5987660\/weather-channel-installs-sprinklers-in-bus-shelters-gets-commuters-all-wet-to-promote-an-android-app\">Gawker<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=Rs3zMcjEm0w:cBm_oSZzmII:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=Rs3zMcjEm0w:cBm_oSZzmII:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=Rs3zMcjEm0w:cBm_oSZzmII:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=Rs3zMcjEm0w:cBm_oSZzmII:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=Rs3zMcjEm0w:cBm_oSZzmII:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=Rs3zMcjEm0w:cBm_oSZzmII:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=Rs3zMcjEm0w:cBm_oSZzmII:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=Rs3zMcjEm0w:cBm_oSZzmII:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=Rs3zMcjEm0w:cBm_oSZzmII:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/Rs3zMcjEm0w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Weather Channel app for Android lets you know exactly when weather events like rain or snow are supposed to start. Cool, right? What&#8217;s not cool is installing sprinklers inside a bus shelter and drenching everyone inside because they didn&#8217;t have the app so they didn&#8217;t know when the rain was going to start. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644558","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\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}