{"id":3720,"date":"2010-02-27T06:57:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T11:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2010-02-27T06:57:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T11:57:56","slug":"rip-gordon-lightfoot-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/rip-gordon-lightfoot-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;RIP Gordon Lightfoot.&#8221; Or not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">S<\/span>urely you heard the twitter-storm that turned into a media frenzy last week, about the wildly exaggerated rumours of the death of Gordon Lightfoot.  But did you know it was an Ottawa woman and mom of two, nothing more nefarious than a biologist, who was the catalyst for the rumour?  Read the full story from her perspective in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/facts-and-arguments\/i-didnt-kill-gordon-lightfoot\/article1481522\/\">this <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> article<\/a>.  Best line in the whole piece? &#8220;Thankfully, Gordon Lightfoot didn&#8217;t believe the radio, or he wouldn&#8217;t have made it to his dentist appointment.&#8221; *snicker*<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just glad I wasn&#8217;t the most infamous person on the interwebs last week &#8212; for a while there, it was beginning to feel that way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surely you heard the twitter-storm that turned into a media frenzy last week, about the wildly exaggerated rumours of the death of Gordon Lightfoot. But did you know it was an Ottawa woman and mom of two, nothing more nefarious than a biologist, who was the catalyst for the rumour? Read the full story from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/rip-gordon-lightfoot-or-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;RIP Gordon Lightfoot.&#8221; Or not.&#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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}