{"id":1068,"date":"2006-05-03T20:51:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T00:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2006-08-16T19:09:38","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T22:09:38","slug":"soap-box-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Soap! Box! Plane."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>here&#8217;s this totally dry McDonalds (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcdonalds.ca\/\">company site<\/a>) commercial about their latest product, the Junior McChicken<sup>1<\/sup>. For some kind of reason, it&#8217;s funny but, not really. On the other side, Apple released some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/getamac\/\">other funny ads<\/a> (online!) that appear to convince people to switch to Apple. Not on my watch, but, yes, those ads, are brilliant.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hear, hear! The Conservatives tabled their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/background\/budget2006\/\">first budget<\/a>: the most remarkable thing of the presentation was that I honestly thought that the Finance Minister had the perfect radio voice. Yes! This message was brought to you by McDonalds.\n<\/p>\n<p>Having followed the Toronto Airbus crash (no victims), I wonder if this is the <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/europe\/05\/02\/russia.plane\/index.html\">first time since ages that an Airbus, well, crashed<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><small><sup>1<\/sup>. Since it&#8217;s lobster season, I wouldn&#8217;t doubt that their McLobster is soon to be available too.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s this totally dry McDonalds (company site) commercial about their latest product, the Junior McChicken1. For some kind of reason, it&#8217;s funny but, not really. On the other side, Apple released some other funny ads (online!) that appear to convince &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1068\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"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=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}