{"id":5205,"date":"2013-06-05T22:43:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2013-06-05T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:44:00","slug":"great-moments-in-spin-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5205","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/global\/2013\/06\/rob-ford-tourism\/65839\/\">tourism brochures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Toronto mayor Rob Ford is still dodging allegations that he smoked crack cocaine, but now he seems to think there&#8217;s a silver lining to the international attention brought upon his city by the scandal over his (alleged!) drug use: tourism dollars. At least that&#8217;s what Ford told Toronto radio DJ Maurie Sherman on Saturday when asked if the extra high-profile press, from morning shows like Good Morning America and Today to late-night hawks like Jimmy Fallon and Jon Stewart, was hurting the city. &#8220;No. It&#8217;s whatever people perceive it as. <strong>Any time you can get Toronto on the map<\/strong>,&#8221; Ford said. &#8220;I think people have to come to the city and see what we have to offer. And we have great arts and culture, great theatres, great restaurants, great sporting teams. I encourage everyone to come to Toronto.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see the tourism brochures: Toronto mayor Rob Ford is still dodging allegations that he smoked crack cocaine, but now he seems to think there&#8217;s a silver lining to the international attention brought upon his city by the scandal over his (alleged!) drug use: tourism dollars. At least that&#8217;s what Ford told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,904],"tags":[1072],"class_list":["post-5205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-moments-in-spin","category-toronto-municipal-politics","tag-rob-ford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5208,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions\/5208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}