{"id":1615,"date":"2010-02-25T20:39:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T04:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2010\/02\/25\/a-tims-olympic-moment\/"},"modified":"2019-10-20T14:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T22:42:36","slug":"a-tims-olympic-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2010\/02\/25\/a-tims-olympic-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"a tim&rsquo;s olympic  moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been enjoying the Spring Olympics out here on the Wet Coast. Of course, that means the sporting events are interrupted by commercials.<\/p>\n<p>One commercial we have been seeing over and over up here is promoting Tim Horton\u2019s coffee shops, almost a national institution up here. It is one of those very few commercials that you don\u2019t get tired of, so I thought my American readers might enjoy seeing it:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:185c2593-8699-4d0c-a069-31e33ad68389\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">\n<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5NQaWk_GTNc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>The screen here in Canada says it is based on a true story, but I haven\u2019t been able to find any background on it.<\/p>\n<p>I did find <a href=\"http:\/\/rosssimmonds.com\/2010\/02\/24\/tim-hortons-advertising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this discussion<\/a> of it, which I think helps capture the emotion of the spot\u2026 and the \u2018Canadian-ness\u2019 of it as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"don_sig2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/don_sig25.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been enjoying the Spring Olympics out here on the Wet Coast. Of course, that means the sporting events are interrupted by commercials. One commercial we have been seeing over and over up here is promoting Tim Horton\u2019s coffee shops, almost a national institution up here. It is one of those very few commercials that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[184,189,190],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-q3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}