{"id":186169,"date":"2014-04-18T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/18\/jon-stewart-is-weeping-for-joy\/"},"modified":"2014-04-18T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T23:45:00","slug":"jon-stewart-is-weeping-for-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/18\/jon-stewart-is-weeping-for-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart is Weeping for Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto&#8217;s world-renowned on crack-smoking mayor is <a href=\"hhttp:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/rob-ford-launches-re-election-bid-i-won-t-back-down-1.2613334\">standing for reelection<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Toronto Mayor Rob Ford officially launched his re-election campaign before a crowd of supporters Thursday night \u2014 sticking closely to the issues he has stressed over his last four years as mayor. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a 30-minute speech before some 2,000 supporters, Ford pledged to fight special interests, to cut red tape and to keep taxes low if returned to office on Oct. 27. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;I\u2019m running on my record and my record is second to none,&#8221; Ford told the crowd at the Toronto Congress Centre, the same venue where he celebrated his election victory back in 2010. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Record second to none,&#8221; huh?<\/p>\n<p>I would have to agree with that characterization, but I really do not see this as a positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto&#8217;s world-renowned on crack-smoking mayor is standing for reelection: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford officially launched his re-election campaign before a crowd of supporters Thursday night \u2014 sticking closely to the issues he has stressed over his last four years as mayor. In a 30-minute speech before some 2,000 supporters, Ford pledged to fight special interests, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1048,1028,978,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-humor","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-politics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}