{"id":3650,"date":"2010-02-06T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2010-02-06T13:38:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T18:38:33","slug":"in-which-my-7-year-old-reveals-obamas-egregious-copyright-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/06\/in-which-my-7-year-old-reveals-obamas-egregious-copyright-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"In which my 7 year old reveals Obama&#8217;s egregious copyright violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">T<\/span>ristan and I are in the car, sitting in the Tim&#8217;s drivethrough on the way to skating lessons.  We&#8217;re listening to one of my favourite radio program on CBC, Terry O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/ageofpersuasion\/index.html?copy-index\">The Age of Persuasion<\/a>.  The episode is about tag lines and slogans.<\/p>\n<p>As it runs through the opening, it plays a series of famous tag lines from past to present, including Obama&#8217;s infamous rallying cry of &#8220;Yes, we can!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tristan says, &#8220;Hey, I recognize that guy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure you do,&#8221; I reply.  We may be Canadian, but the average school kid can likely name Obama as the President before Harper as the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was Bob the Builder!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It took me a full minute before I could reconcile his response, and then I couldn&#8217;t help but laugh.  Loudly.<\/p>\n<p><em>Can we build it?  Yes, we can!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitentertainment.com\/portal\/us\/\">Hit Entertainment<\/a> has filed the copyright violation suit yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tristan and I are in the car, sitting in the Tim&#8217;s drivethrough on the way to skating lessons. We&#8217;re listening to one of my favourite radio program on CBC, Terry O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s The Age of Persuasion. The episode is about tag lines and slogans. As it runs through the opening, it plays a series of famous &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/06\/in-which-my-7-year-old-reveals-obamas-egregious-copyright-violation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In which my 7 year old reveals Obama&#8217;s egregious copyright violation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tristan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}