{"id":405,"date":"2004-10-22T00:19:02-04:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T08:19:02+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=405"},"modified":"2004-10-22T00:19:02-04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T08:19:02+00:00","slug":"greatness-thrust-upon-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2004\/10\/22\/greatness-thrust-upon-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatness thrust upon&nbsp;them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Nominally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2004\/10\/21\/ALCS\">via Tim Bray<\/a> (it&#8217;s the next article down from <a href=\"http:\/\/colbycosh.com\/#iobn\">the one he links to<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/colbycosh.com\/#dcgc\" title=\"Colby Cosh: Vote early, vote often\"><p>In your heart, you know we have to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/greatest\/\">Don Cherry elected as The Greatest Canadian<\/a>&#8230;.  It would annoy everyone worth annoying in this country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a fan of Cherry&#8217;s, but Cosh points out some of his accomplishments that are often glossed over.  Do they make him the <cite class=\"term\">greatest<\/cite> Canadian ever?  Hardly&#8230; but he&#8217;s not as bad as he gets the rap for being, either.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nominally via Tim Bray (it&#8217;s the next article down from the one he links to): In your heart, you know we have to get Don Cherry elected as The Greatest Canadian&#8230;. It would annoy everyone worth annoying in this country. I&#8217;ve never been a fan of Cherry&#8217;s, but Cosh points out some of his accomplishments&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}