{"id":11476,"date":"2011-10-14T12:12:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T08:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=11476"},"modified":"2011-10-15T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T06:10:43","slug":"do-coca-cola-signs-enhance-the-medina-in-fez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/do-coca-cola-signs-enhance-the-medina-in-fez\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Coca-Cola Signs Enhance the Medina in Fez?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Coke-in-Fez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11477\" title=\"Coke in Fez\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Coke-in-Fez-e1318579814692.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Coke-in-Fez-e1318579814692.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Coke-in-Fez-e1318579814692-145x92.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;It&#8217;s disgusting!&#8221; a Moroccan friend told us. It took a moment to understand what he was talking about. Then he pointed the signs out and we had to agree. The advertising signs are quite discreet in a way, but that does not take away from the fact that they further degrade the streetscapes of the Medina.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately a lot of people have also found them inappropriate and, as one cafe owner told The View from Fez, &#8220;First it is Coke and next it will be MacDonalds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the signs will disappear in a few weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE VIEW FROM FEZ: We all know the answer: The omni-present American purveyor of sugared-water makes its presence felt where it&#8217;s not welcome. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":11477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,90,337,235,482,5],"tags":[873,872,18334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}