{"id":8000,"date":"2009-07-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/10\/burger-king-apologizes-for-ad-offensive-to-hindus\/"},"modified":"2009-07-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T12:00:00","slug":"burger-king-apologizes-for-ad-offensive-to-hindus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/10\/burger-king-apologizes-for-ad-offensive-to-hindus\/","title":{"rendered":"Burger King Apologizes for Ad Offensive to Hindus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news4u.co.in\/?p=28939\">news4u.co.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, DC, USA, July 11, 2009: Burger King, a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants in more than 70 countries, has apologized for running an advertisement in Spain that offended  Hindus. &#8220;We are apologizing because it wasn&#8217;t our intent to offend anyone,&#8221; Denise T Wilson, spokesman of Burger King said.<\/p>\n<p>The print advertisement in Spain that depicts an image of the Hindu Goddess, Lakshmi, seated atop a meat sandwich, other foodstuffs with a catch phrase, &#8216;The snack is sacred&#8217;, in Spanish. It can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/india\/5786561\/Burger-King-apology-to-Hindus-for-advert.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of respect for the Hindu community, the limited-time advertisement has been removed from the restaurants,&#8221; Wilson said a day after the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) in a statement asked Burger King to remove the offensive advertisement. According to the website AdFreak.com, specialized in media and advertising, the intervention from HAF had a pivotal role. <\/p>\n<p>HAF in its letter to Burger King did allude to the company&#8217;s positive track record of quickly removing and apologizing for previous offensive ad campaigns. &#8220;Of course we would hope that such misjudgment did not occur in the first place, but we are indeed pleased to hear of Burger King&#8217;s move,&#8221; HAF&#8217;s representative  said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news4u.co.in WASHINGTON, DC, USA, July 11, 2009: Burger King, a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants in more,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}