{"id":4474,"date":"2011-12-11T15:06:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T15:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/11\/happy-clocks\/"},"modified":"2011-12-12T10:08:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T10:08:56","slug":"happy-clocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/11\/happy-clocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy clocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/wpid-IMAG1180.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>One thing I learned from Dave Gorman&#8217;s PowerPoint adventure was that, at some point in the past, a marketing executive decided that clocks set to a &#8220;happy&#8221; time (i.e. the hands were in a semblance of a smile) were more likely to sell so now every time I see a clock display like this, I giggle. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also why all of HTC&#8217;s phone adverts have 10:08 as a time display on the digital clocks :)<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/happy-htc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"happy-htc\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\"  \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I learned from Dave Gorman&#8217;s PowerPoint adventure was that, at some point in the past, a marketing executive decided that clocks set to a &#8220;happy&#8221; time (i.e. the hands were in a semblance of a smile) were more likely to sell so now every time I see a clock display like this, I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/11\/happy-clocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Happy clocks&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-4474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-shit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-1aa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4488,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}