{"id":19493,"date":"2012-08-15T13:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=19493"},"modified":"2012-08-15T13:36:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:36:19","slug":"priceline-negotiator-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/08\/priceline-negotiator-not-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Priceline Negotiator: Not Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19496\" title=\"ShatnerPriceline081512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ShatnerPriceline081512.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new Priceline ad reveals that the Priceline Negotiator is still sharing those Priceline deals.<\/p>\n<p>Played by <strong>William Shatner<\/strong>, the last time viewers saw the Priceline Negotiator, he was in a bus that plunged off of a bridge and was destroyed in a fiery explosion. But as a new ad reveals, the Priceline Negotiator is alive and well and has found a new hobby.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The new thirty-second spot, due to air tomorrow, has hit <em>YouTube<\/em> already. &#8220;You&#8217;ve been busy for a dead man,&#8221; said a company man (<strong>Allan Louis<\/strong>). &#8220;After you jumped ship in Bangkok, I thought I&#8217;d lost you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Surfing is my life now,&#8221; replied the Priceline Negotiator. Although dressed in a business suit, he has his pants legs rolled up and he is carrying a surfboard.<\/p>\n<p>Before running into the ocean, the Priceline Negotiator can&#8217;t resist plugging Priceline one more time.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner is pleased to return as the Priceline Negotiator. He felt that doing away with the character in the first place had been a bad decision. &#8220;I knew it was a mistake, absolutely,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a certain pride in making a character in advertising a popular character,&#8221; said Shatner &#8220;You could look at it as an achievement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7HwTJH-RI18\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Priceline ad reveals that the Priceline Negotiator is still sharing those Priceline deals&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2700,2413],"tags":[2782,4649,2414],"class_list":["post-19493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cast-crew","tag-priceline","tag-priceline-negotiator","tag-shatner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/business\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Business<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19502,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493\/revisions\/19502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}