{"id":525,"date":"2006-12-28T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2006\/12\/28\/rick-mercer-is-funny-guy-and-well-wor\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:50:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:50:21","slug":"rick-mercer-is-funny-guy-and-well-wor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2006\/12\/28\/rick-mercer-is-funny-guy-and-well-wor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Mercer is a funny guy and well worth reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_plNK-YE-FJo\/RZQb_YA34HI\/AAAAAAAAAAw\/y4fksRtZYdI\/s1600-h\/christmas%2Bdinner%2B1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/christmas-dinner-1.jpg?w=629\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5013663060762026098\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/rickmercer.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/christmas-in-flak-jackets.html\">Rick Mercer has a blog<\/a>. And while he doesn&#8217;t post that often, it&#8217;s usually worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>During the Christmas season, he&#8217;s been in Afghanistan and <a href=\"http:\/\/rickmercer.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/christmas-in-flak-jackets.html\">his most recent post<\/a> has quite a bit of detail about his visit.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not signed up to get his blog feed, consider doing so. I recommend it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rick_Mercer\">Mercer<\/a> has been one of my favourite comics for years, thanks to such great stunts as his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fstory%2F2000%2F11%2F16%2Fbc_dorisday001116.html&#038;ei=RRmURYbnAYP-gwPAu9CcDw&#038;usg=__S7EbNXPw9w9PiHKRpowUOrGxwAM=&#038;sig2=c8SnjNHOv_A5FPs9jlcwoQ\">on-line petition<\/a> to have Stockwell Day change his name to Doris and his hilarious <a href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~wwwstephen\/americans\/\">&#8220;Talking to Americans&#8221;<\/a> segments for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/22minutes\/\">This Hour has 22 Minutes<\/a> comedy show on CBC TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Mercer has a blog. And while he doesn&#8217;t post that often, it&#8217;s usually worth reading. During the Christmas season, he&#8217;s been in Afghanistan and his most recent post has quite a bit of detail about his visit. If you&#8217;re not signed up to get his blog feed, consider doing so. I recommend it. Mercer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/christmas-dinner-1.jpg?fit=200%2C150&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-8t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}