{"id":6481,"date":"2016-08-16T03:50:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-brands-buy-us\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:50:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:50:21","slug":"how-brands-buy-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-brands-buy-us\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW\n  BRANDS BUY US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Appetites; Belonging; Choices; Culture; Entertainment; Idolatry; Lifestyle; Possessions; Satisfaction; Self-centeredness; Self-worth<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Psalm 86:11; 115:4\u20138; Proverbs 8:10\u201311<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>When you buy something, you can join any number of tribes on any number of days and feel part of something bigger than yourself. You can belong to the Callaway tribe when you play golf, the VW tribe when you drive to work, and the Williams-Sonoma tribe when you cook a meal. You\u2019re part of a select clan (or so you feel) when you buy products from these clearly differentiated companies. So says Marty Neumeier, author of <i>The Brand Gap<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Brands are the little gods of modern life, each ruling a different need, activity, mood, or situation. Yet you\u2019re in control, Neumeier says. If your latest god falls from Olympus, you can switch to another one.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Based on Marty Neumeier, <i>The Brand Gap<\/i> (AIGA, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Appetites; Belonging; Choices; Culture; Entertainment; Idolatry; Lifestyle; Possessions; Satisfaction; Self-centeredness; Self-worth References: Psalm 86:11; 115:4\u20138; Proverbs 8:10\u201311 When you buy something, you can join any number of tribes on any number of days and feel part of something bigger than yourself. You can belong to the Callaway tribe when you play golf, the VW &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-brands-buy-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HOW<br \/>\n  BRANDS BUY US&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}