{"id":945,"date":"2011-07-21T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T14:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nscadesign.ca\/mleblanc\/?p=945"},"modified":"2013-09-08T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T12:22:51","slug":"general-eccentric-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"General Eccentric Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>You&#8217;ve heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/marshallmcluhan.com\/\">Marshall McLuhan<\/a>? Meet General Eccentric.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GE-logotype-web.png\" rel=\"lightbox[945]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-947 alignright\" title=\"GE-logotype-web\" alt=\"General Eccentric\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GE-logotype-web-150x150.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GE-logotype-web-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GE-logotype-web-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GE-logotype-web.png 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn celebration of McLuhan&#8217;s centenary, the General will be periodically offering <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/generalxcentric\">current Canadian news mashups<\/a>, in the tradition of McLuhan&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/marshallmcluhan.com\/mcluhanisms\/\">probes<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples from today&#8217;s news:<\/p>\n<pre>A Catholic roof blows off and crushes cars<\/pre>\n<pre>In Southeast Asia, Baird charges over riot<\/pre>\n<pre>Toronto cuts money for costing Montreal millions<\/pre>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/generalxcentric\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @generalxcentric<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard of Marshall McLuhan? Meet General Eccentric. In celebration of McLuhan&#8217;s centenary, the General will be periodically offering current Canadian news mashups, in the tradition of McLuhan&#8217;s &#8220;probes&#8220;. Some examples from today&#8217;s news: A Catholic roof blows off and crushes cars In Southeast Asia, Baird charges over riot Toronto cuts money for costing Montreal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/?p=945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">General Eccentric Speaks Out<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102,55],"tags":[65,63],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-the-technology-of-good-intentions","tag-general-eccentric","tag-mcluhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}