{"id":18122,"date":"2013-02-19T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/nike-pulls-oscars-bullet-ad\/"},"modified":"2013-02-19T01:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:51:00","slug":"nike-pulls-oscars-bullet-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/nike-pulls-oscars-bullet-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike pulls Oscar\u2019s \u2018bullet\u2019 ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sportswear company Nike said on Monday that it had no plans to use Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius in future ad campaigns after the South African sports star was charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Nike Inc spokesman KeJuan Wilkins confirmed the company\u2019s plans to The Associated Press. He declined to say whether Nike had previously had any plans for Pistorius, or whether it would pull current advertising that included him.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius is a double-amputee who races on carbon-fiber blades and competed in the London Olympics last year. He has been charged with shooting and killing his girlfriend in his hom in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>A Nike internet ad showing Pistorius starting to sprint in his blades with the caption \u201cI am the bullet in the chamber\u201d has already been pulled. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/nike-no-plans-oscar-pistorius-future-ads?utm_campaign=AP_Sportsutm_source=SocialFlowutm_medium=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sportswear company Nike said on Monday that it had no plans to use Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius in future ad campaigns after the South African sports star was charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend. Nike Inc spokesman KeJuan Wilkins confirmed the company\u2019s plans to The Associated Press. He declined to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}