{"id":18243,"date":"2021-06-19T07:38:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T14:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18243"},"modified":"2021-06-19T07:38:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T14:38:19","slug":"overnight-news-victorias-real-secret-self-loathing-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18243\/overnight-news-victorias-real-secret-self-loathing-apparently\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Victoria\u2019s <em>real<\/em> secret? Self-loathing, apparently."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_16586\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ya think it's easy?\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cDo you want to understand dog-food marketing? Neither the brand-specifier nor the decision-maker is the\u00a0dog.\u201d<\/p><\/div>What to make of marketing? One business after another has thrown Claude Hopkins, <em>et seq.,<\/em> under the bus \u2013 in pursuit of what, exactly?<\/p>\n<p>None more daft than Victoria&#8217;s Secret, surely. They have elected to reflect their actual clientele, rather than the aspirational impulses of the mates of those matronly mini-manatees. In consequence, they will beat the rest of the mall to bankruptcy by a wide-assed margin.<\/p>\n<p>Especially brilliant of them to blow up their business on Father&#8217;s Day weekend. In households where this move is celebrated, I expect dad won&#8217;t be getting a steak or that other Father&#8217;s Day treat, either.<\/p>\n<p>Lingerie is tits and ass, and who doesn&#8217;t know that? Real estate is kids and dogs. Never doubt it \u2013 and never forget it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Housing Wire:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/house-flipping-hits-lowest-level-since-2000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">House flipping hits lowest level since 2000.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The New York Post:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/17\/exodus-of-the-rich-to-florida-threatens-disaster-for-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Exodus of the rich\u2019 to Florida threatens disaster for NYC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Housing Wire:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/juneteenth-holiday-sparks-chaos-for-lenders-loan-officers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juneteenth holiday sparks chaos for lenders, LOs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CNBC:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/18\/invitation-homes-ceo-says-hes-not-worried-about-a-housing-bubble.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Invitation Homes CEO says he\u2019s not worried about a housing bubble despite price spikes. Here\u2019s why.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>John McWhorter:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/johnmcwhorter.substack.com\/p\/you-are-not-a-racist-to-criticize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You Are Not A Racist To Criticize Critical Race Theory.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Sullivan:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/dont-ban-crt-expose-it-2d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don&#8217;t Ban CRT. Expose It.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Donald Trump:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2021\/06\/18\/a_plan_to_get_divisive__radical_theories_out_of_our_schools_145946.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Plan to Get Divisive &amp; Radical Theories Out of Our Schools.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Rufo:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/critical-race-theory-portland-public-schools?wallit_nosession=1#.YMo9hu24KHM.facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Child Soldiers of Portland: Public schools are training children to become race-conscious revolutionaries.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo you want to understand dog-food marketing? Neither the brand-specifier nor the decision-maker is the\u00a0dog.\u201dWhat to make of marketing? One business after another has thrown Claude Hopkins, et seq., under the bus \u2013 in pursuit of what, exactly? None more daft than Victoria&#8217;s Secret, surely. They have elected to reflect their actual clientele, rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18241,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18241\/overnight-news-dutch-uncle-to-a-french-bulldog-adoring-and-studying-miss-chioux\/","url_meta":{"origin":18243,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: Dutch Uncle to a French Bulldog: Adoring and studying Miss Chioux.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Miss Cleopatra Chioux, the French Bulldog I have been socializing since Thanksgiving, is with us all weekend \u2013 a huge treat for me. 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This stunt always used to work with my Gammy.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Mother&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18244,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions\/18244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}