{"id":334,"date":"2018-01-02T18:17:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T18:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/johncomber\/?p=334"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:45:35","slug":"weedol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"WEEDOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='content-column full_width'><div style=\"padding-right:10px;padding-left:10px;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Weedol TV advert I wrote, which I loosely based on Hitchcock&#8217;s The birds and B-movies of the same era. It was directed by The Vikings and we shot it in South Africa (those were the days of bigger budgets and no AI)&#8230;<\/p><\/div><\/div><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/31870130?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span class=\"mce_SELRES_start\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And a shorter TV edit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13207861?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff And a shorter TV edit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,491],"tags":[487,20,246,642,488,222,680,489,490,157,226,94,230,317,33,492,189,256,493,494],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-household","tag-1950s","tag-above-the-line","tag-cinema","tag-diy","tag-flowers","tag-garden","tag-gardening","tag-grass","tag-hitchcock-esque","tag-home-and-garden","tag-household-products","tag-outdoor","tag-outdoors","tag-retro","tag-television","tag-the-birds","tag-tv","tag-tv-work","tag-weed-killer","tag-weeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"https:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/4478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncomber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}