{"id":260,"date":"2003-02-01T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-01T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=260"},"modified":"2003-02-01T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-01T10:13:00","slug":"play-nice-kiddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-02\/260-play-nice-kiddies","title":{"rendered":"Play nice, kiddies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font COLOR=\"#3333BB\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/allpop.canoe.ca\/AllPopShowbiz\/jan27_aqua-ap.html\">Toymaker Mattel lost a Supreme Court appeal<\/a> Monday over a mocking pop song that called the iconic fashion doll Barbie a blond bimbo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The judge closed his written opinion with a warning to both companies to play nice. &#8220;The parties are advised to chill,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mattel, contended the appeals court rejected the reasoning of other courts in similar cases and ignored evidence that consumers were confused.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toymaker Mattel lost a Supreme Court appeal Monday over a mocking pop song that called the iconic fashion doll Barbie a blond bimbo. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The judge closed his written opinion with a warning to both companies to play nice. &#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-02\/260-play-nice-kiddies\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}