{"id":1009,"date":"2006-03-11T01:01:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T05:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2006-03-11T01:01:52","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T05:01:52","slug":"canadian-tire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"Canadian tire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arlier I discovered that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genx40.com\/archives\/2006\/march\/thebestdayever\">Canadian Tire family<\/a> (Via Alan), Ted and Gloria Simonett no longer star in the new Canadian Tire commercials. There&#8217;s (most likely) going to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/49934\">short discussion<\/a> over at Metafilter.\n<\/p>\n<p>Not that I really care: I just wanted to mention that the first time I saw a Canadian Tire commercial, I thought Canadian Tire was a <em>charity<\/em>. When I found out that it wasn&#8217;t I (wrongly) assumed it was probably a company that sold tires. Which isn&#8217;t completely true either, after I figured out that the couple above really were trying to sell people Mastercraft wares instead of tires (&#8216;Only at Canadian Tire!&#8217;). Imagine my surprise when I heard about <em>Canadian Tire money<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Surreal, I&#8217;ll tell you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier I discovered that the Canadian Tire family (Via Alan), Ted and Gloria Simonett no longer star in the new Canadian Tire commercials. There&#8217;s (most likely) going to be a short discussion over at Metafilter. Not that I really care: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1009\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}