{"id":575,"date":"2006-03-13T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2006-03-13T15:25:57","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T23:25:57","slug":"think-hell-get-any-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Think He&#8217;ll Get Any Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/49934\"> The Crappy &#8211; er, Canadian &#8211; Tire guy <\/a>  will no longer grace our nation&#8217;s airwaves with his unsolicited advice and smirky bearded face!  Farewell, godspeed, whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t begin to tell you how happy this makes me, not only because: who doesn&#8217;t hate the CT guy?  but also because I know someone who is the mirror image of the CT guy, both in looks and in behavior and trust me, having the Canadian Tire guy always looking over your &#8220;fence&#8221; and offering you unsolicited advice?  About as much fun in real life as it is on TV.  But with fewer power tools.  (So actually, <i>less<\/i> fun in real life than on TV.)  My hope is that the two are somehow connected, like a voodoo doll type deal, and the disappearance of one &#8211; well &#8211; I don&#8217;t have to spell it out for you.  In print.  On the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The other important part of this story is that Canadian Tire has switched ad agencies entirely so maybe the vapid &#8220;it starts with you\/c&#8217;mon &#038; get things started here\/ooooooh\/let&#8217;s get started&#8221; jingle will also soon be at the unemployment office looking for its pogey.  Again &#8211; me, <a href=\"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=568\"> living in Hope,<\/a> sitting on my porch swing and enjoying the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getawaybc.com\/story.cgi?paper=13\"> chainsaw carvings.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crappy &#8211; er, Canadian &#8211; Tire guy will no longer grace our nation&#8217;s airwaves with his unsolicited advice and smirky bearded face! Farewell, godspeed, whatnot. I can&#8217;t begin to tell you how happy this makes me, not only because: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=575\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}