{"id":932,"date":"2003-11-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-02T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2003\/11\/02\/from-the-give-me-a-friggin-break-files\/"},"modified":"2003-11-02T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-02T15:30:00","slug":"from-the-give-me-a-friggin-break-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2003\/11\/02\/from-the-give-me-a-friggin-break-files\/","title":{"rendered":"From the &quot;Give Me a Friggin&apos; Break&quot; files&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenair.com\/articles\/2003\/11\/01\/national\/a02110103_03.txt\">Toys ?R&apos; Us ad riles anti-drug campaigners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By The Associated Press &#8211; 11\/01\/03<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP)  &#8211;  A Toys ??R&apos;&apos; Us television commercial, which features the company&apos;s mascot, Geoffrey the Giraffe, inhaling helium from a balloon, has drawn the ire of anti-drug campaigners who say the ad sends a dangerous message to children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any portrayal of inhalant use is bad, especially when we&apos;re reaching out to younger children who are at most risk of abusing inhalants,&apos;&apos; Charles Curie, administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The ad campaign has finished its rotation and will not be introduced, Toys &apos;R&apos;&apos; Us spokeswoman Susan McLaughlin said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Toys ?R&apos; Us takes the safety of our guests very seriously,&apos;&apos; McLaughlin said.  &#8220;We would never encourage any behavior that would be dangerous in any way.&apos;&apos;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toys ?R&apos; Us ad riles anti-drug campaigners By The Associated Press &#8211; 11\/01\/03 WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; A Toys ??R&apos;&apos; Us television commercial, which features the company&apos;s mascot, Geoffrey the Giraffe, inhaling helium from a balloon, has drawn the ire of anti-drug campaigners who say the ad sends a dangerous message to children. &#8220;Any portrayal of inhalant use is bad, especially when we&apos;re reaching out to younger children who are at most risk of abusing inhalants,&apos;&apos; Charles Curie, administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, said Friday. The ad campaign has finished its rotation and will not be introduced, Toys &apos;R&apos;&apos; Us spokeswoman Susan McLaughlin said in a statement. &#8220;Toys ?R&apos; Us takes the safety of our guests very seriously,&apos;&apos; McLaughlin said. &#8220;We would never encourage any behavior that would be dangerous in any way.&apos;&apos;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}