{"id":14640,"date":"2012-02-02T22:01:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T03:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14640"},"modified":"2012-02-02T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T03:01:16","slug":"race-for-the-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14640","title":{"rendered":"Race For The Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsingazette.com\/breaking-news\/komen-foundation-offers-pink-handgun-to-promote-breast-cancer-awareness-month.html\">pretty clearly<\/a> looks like the giant, well-established Komen foundation is trying to turn itself into a \"conservative\"-leaning woman's health charity. That sucks. Obviously.<\/p>\n<p>But, <i>assuming that is the goal<\/i>, is what they've done a bad move?<\/p>\n<p>Name another group in that niche. Name one with even one tenth the clout of SGK.<\/p>\n<p>I'm just guessing here... but I'll guess that if they lose even half their support, they'll still be huge - the biggest of their kind. And that's not a bad place to be, if you want to control what women's health clinics can afford to do.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: I'm guessing the SGK leadership has anticipated the current backlash, and is betting they'll still be in good shape once everything is said and done. They'll still be big, and they can use the brand to push their \"conservative\" agenda.<\/p>\n<p>--------<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/thescoopblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/komen-apologizes-for-recent-de.html\">maybe not<\/a>...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it pretty clearly looks like the giant, well-established Komen foundation is trying to turn itself into a \"conservative\"-leaning woman's health charity. That sucks. Obviously. But, assuming that is the goal, is what they've done a bad move? Name another group in that niche. Name one with even one tenth the clout of SGK. I'm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}