{"id":814,"date":"2007-03-28T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=814"},"modified":"2007-03-28T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T00:09:00","slug":"another-reason-to-love-rick-mercer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/03\/28\/another-reason-to-love-rick-mercer\/","title":{"rendered":"Another reason to love Rick Mercer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/momm-eh.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/plan-to-take-down-mercer-phase-one.html\">our <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/momm-eh.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/plan-to-take-down-rick-mercer-phase.html\">heated <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/momm-eh.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/taking-down-rick-mercer-phase-three.html\">rivalry <\/a>for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards, Rick Mercer and I have come to an easy peace (inasmuch as I stopped obsessing about him and he continued to not notice that I exist.)<\/p>\n<p>Just now, I was futzing about on the computer looking up bits for our trip to Bar Harbour, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/mercerreport\">Rick Mercer Report <\/a>was on in the background. I suddenly knew he must have been thinking about me all this time, maybe quietly lurking on the blog, when I heard his skit featuring the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/mercerreport\">Stephen Harper Home Pregnancy Kit<\/a>, which lampooned the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cra-arc.gc.ca\/agency\/budget\/2007\/taxcredit-e.html\">new child tax credit <\/a>from the recent federal budget with the tag line, &#8220;Canada&#8217;s New Government &#8211; Fooling Families Two Budgets in a Row!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sing it, Rick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following our heated rivalry for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards, Rick Mercer and I have come to an easy peace (inasmuch as I stopped obsessing about him and he continued to not notice that I exist.) Just now, I was futzing about on the computer looking up bits for our trip to Bar Harbour, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/03\/28\/another-reason-to-love-rick-mercer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another reason to love Rick Mercer&#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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-and-rambles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","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=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}