{"id":80,"date":"2008-01-25T16:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T21:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/everything-is-political-man\/"},"modified":"2008-01-25T16:19:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T21:19:35","slug":"everything-is-political-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/everything-is-political-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything is political, man."},"content":{"rendered":"

I got an email from Ticketmaster the other day, one of the thirty or forty thousand they send me every year asking me to attend everything from the Backyardigans<\/a> (um, dude, I don’t have any kids, which would make it Michael Jackson creepy for me to be hanging around that show) to various\u00a0military tattoos<\/a>\u00a0and quasi-sporting<\/a> events.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps unsurprisingly, I do not make a habit of opening up the various missives launched into my inbox by my friends at Ticketmaster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This particular email, though, intrigued me.\u00a0 The subject line read, “Toronto Maple Leafs.”\u00a0 I couldn’t believe that the Leafs’ ticket sales had somehow suddenly taken such a nosedive as to require active promotion and solicitation;\u00a0 why, then, would Ticketmaster be talking to me about my beloved Blue and White?\u00a0 I clicked open the email and all I saw, to begin with, was the graphic reproduced below:<\/p>\n

\"freesundin\"<\/a>\u00a0At first, I saw only the first three words in the graphic and I was convinced that Ticketmaster was throwing its considerable corporate weight behind\u00a0some sort of grassroots political\u00a0movement to extricate Mats from the seven circles of hell that must be life in the Leaf dressing room these days;\u00a0 I thought it odd that they somehow felt compelled to campaign for Sundin’s liberty, but Leaf fans are everywhere and many of us do love our Captain;\u00a0 perhaps, I thought, big 13’s predicament had moved one of my fellow Leaf fans in the big organization to become the Internet-meets-sports-fan version of Thomas Paine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I actually felt quite let down when I realized this graphic was not part of a manifesto but rather an ad for a cheap piece of plastic swag tossed in to an otherwise disappointing bargain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got an email from Ticketmaster the other day, one of the thirty or forty thousand they send me every year asking me to attend everything from the Backyardigans (um, dude, I don’t have any kids, which would make it Michael Jackson creepy for me to be hanging around that show) to various military tattoos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}