{"id":5642449,"date":"2009-10-13T19:29:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T19:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/dont-mess-with-texas-10"},"modified":"2009-10-13T19:29:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T19:29:20","slug":"dont-mess-with-texas-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/dont-mess-with-texas-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Mess With Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size:large;\"><\/p>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/guitars-cadillacs.com\/images\/IMG_0476.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p \/><span style=\"font-size:large;\">I first heard the phrase &quot;Don&#039;t Mess With Texas&quot; from some Texans in the freshmen dorms. \u00a0You know the guys with the Texas flag in their window. \u00a0I thought it was just a catchy phrase showing off that oh-so-strong Texas pride. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:large;\">I was just reading in Chip and Dan Heath&#039;s &quot;Made to Stick&quot; about how to get certain ideas to stick. \u00a0I read about an anti littering campaign that used the &quot;Don&#039;t Mess&quot; slogan. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:large;\"><\/p>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Media_httpwwwunbcajhscresourcectrblogstickgif_aebrqvbghhjyidu\" height=\"455\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/media_httpwwwunbcajhscresourcectrblogstickgif_aebrqvbghhjyidu-scaled500.gif\" width=\"350\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Then the crazy thought hit me&#8230; What if that ad campaign was the origin of the phrase? \u00a0I googled it and amazingly enough, <b>it<\/b><b> was<\/b>! \u00a0There is even book on the story of the slogan!<\/span><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:large;\">As pointed out in Made to Stick, the &quot;Don&#039;t Mess&quot; ads were some of the most successful ever. \u00a0They reduced littering by 72 percent and have become\u00a0<\/span><span><span style=\"font-size:large;\">synonymous<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:large;\">\u00a0with Texas itself. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Here is some more info. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don't_Mess_with_Texas\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don&#039;t_Mess_with_Texas<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then the crazy thought hit me&#8230; What if that ad campaign was the origin of the phrase? I googled it and amazingly enough, it was! There is even book on the story of the slogan! As pointed out in Made to Stick, the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Mess&#8221; ads were some of th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5642449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5642449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5642449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5642449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}