{"id":10542,"date":"2014-02-13T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2014-02-13T08:07:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T13:07:54","slug":"barbie-in-sports-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/barbie-in-sports-illustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbie In Sports Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/021314_1303_BarbieInSpo1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"554\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year Kate Upton got all the attention in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. This year it seems like it&#8217;s going to be Barbie. Mae Anderson wrote:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary swimsuit edition issue for Sports Illustrated and it will be celebrated with the iconic Barbie doll in its pages.<\/li>\n<li>This is the latest attempt to revive interest in Barbie. Sales fell 13% in the latest quarter.<\/li>\n<li>Barbie is worth $1.3 billion to Mattel and other attempts to generate media buzz for the doll included a breakup with her boyfriend Ken.<\/li>\n<li>The media campaign will be called &#8220;unapologetic&#8221; to represent the company&#8217;s response to the criticism that Barbie promotes an unhealthy body image.<\/li>\n<li>Dolls which sport the swimming costume that Barbie will model in Sports Illustrated will, of course, be sold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why Barbie is now &#8220;one step away from Playboy magazine&#8221;, the dolls that Barbie is now competing against and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/barbie-feature-years-si-swimsuit-issue-22483374\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/barbie-feature-years-si-swimsuit-issue-22483374\">ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more of Centives&#8217; coverage of the economics of Sports Illustrated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/?s=%22sports+illustrated%22\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Kate Upton got all the attention in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. This year it seems like it&#8217;s going to be Barbie. Mae Anderson wrote: It&#8217;s the 50th anniversary swimsuit edition issue for Sports Illustrated and it will be celebrated with the iconic Barbie doll in its pages. This is the latest attempt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/021314_1303_BarbieInSpo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10546,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions\/10546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}