{"id":4819,"date":"2012-09-25T18:40:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T00:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2012-09-25T18:40:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T00:40:38","slug":"how-advertisers-convinced-americans-they-smelled-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4819","title":{"rendered":"How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/How-Advertisers-Convinced-Americans-They-Smelled-Bad-164779646.html?\">Sarah Everts:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Lucky for Edna Murphey, people attending an exposition in Atlantic City during the summer of 1912 got hot and sweaty.<\/p>\n<p>For two years, the high school student from Cincinnati had been trying unsuccessfully to promote an antiperspirant that her father, a surgeon, had invented to keep his hands sweat-free in the operating room.<\/p>\n<p>Murphey had tried her dad\u2019s liquid antiperspirant in her armpits, discovered that it thwarted wetness and smell, named the antiperspirant Odorono (Odor? Oh No!) and decided to start a company.<\/p>\n<p>But business didn\u2019t go well\u2014initially\u2014for this young entrepreneur. Borrowing $150 from her grandfather, she rented an office workshop but then had to move the operation to her parents\u2019 basement because her team of door-to-door saleswomen didn\u2019t pull in enough revenue. Murphey approached drugstore retailers who either refused to stock the product or who returned the bottles of Odorono back, unsold.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Everts: Lucky for Edna Murphey, people attending an exposition in Atlantic City during the summer of 1912 got hot and sweaty. For two years, the high school student from Cincinnati had been trying unsuccessfully to promote an antiperspirant that her father, a surgeon, had invented to keep his hands sweat-free in the operating room. [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}