{"id":154,"date":"2008-06-12T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=154"},"modified":"2008-06-12T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T01:49:00","slug":"night-of-the-non-sequiters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Night of the Non Sequiters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the CBC pushed, as bullies are wont to do; only this time the rights holders of the iconic &#8220;Hockey Night In Canada&#8221; pushed back.  Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/music\/2008\/06\/hockey-night--1.html\">the game&#8217;s afoot<\/a>; Stephen Colbert has promised to make a habit of singing the newly-freed HNiC  &#8220;while punching beavers in the face!&#8221; (oh, and \u2014 non sequiters within non sequiters here, but was that Jonathan Coulton backing up Hodgeman on &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; the other night or was I dreaming?); the CTV snuck in and handed the CBC its ass on a plate, with a side of egg-on-face; and Canada&#8217;s national broadcaster  is suddenly in need of another National Anthem with which to begin its hockey nights.<\/p>\n<p>Might I propose this heartfelt gem from Warren Zevon.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/d8qs67EciCM&amp;hl=en\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/d8qs67EciCM&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Seriously.  There could be no finer candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the CBC pushed, as bullies are wont to do; only this time the rights holders of the iconic &#8220;Hockey Night In Canada&#8221; pushed back. Now, the game&#8217;s afoot; Stephen Colbert has promised to make a habit of singing the newly-freed HNiC &#8220;while punching beavers in the face!&#8221; (oh, and \u2014 non sequiters within non [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}