{"id":15480,"date":"2012-06-14T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15480"},"modified":"2012-06-14T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T13:00:26","slug":"winnipeg-is-not-a-hellhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/winnipeg-is-not-a-hellhole\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg is <em>not<\/em> a hellhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a few weeks in Winnipeg, and while it was a pleasant place to stay in June, others perhaps didn&#8217;t have as much fun:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The local affiliate is interrupting the 4th quarter of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBAFinals<\/a> to show city council election results!!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrappedInAHellHole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TrappedInAHellHole<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobLowe\/status\/212742747222843392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nAnd Scott Feschuk rounded up the reactions very well:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/scottfeschuk\/statuses\/213209975537942529<br \/>\nColby Cosh is <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2012\/06\/14\/lowe-and-behold-rob-gets-a-bum-rap-from-the-peg\/\" target=\"_blank\">late to the scene<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you\u2019re a journalist, sometimes it\u2019s more interesting to come to a story later rather than sooner. (It\u2019s also way easier!) When I first heard that Winnipeg was ablaze with mob fury about a Rob Lowe tweet that described the city as a \u201chellhole\u201d, I sort of chuckled to myself and thought \u201cWelp, right or wrong, he is <em>definitely <\/em>talking about the \u2018Winnipeg\u2019 that\u2019s in Manitoba.\u201d [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Lowe indicated later that he was referring to the bar, and not Winnipeg as a city, when he joked about being in a \u201chellhole\u201d. And, in fact, if you look at what he wrote, he never did say that Winnipeg was a hellhole. (Parts of it are not remotely like hell at all during several months of the year!) But for some reason, an awful lot of Winnipeggers immediately assumed that that\u2019s what he meant. Am I wrong, or does this say more about what they think of their city than it does about what Rob Lowe thinks of it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a few weeks in Winnipeg, and while it was a pleasant place to stay in June, others perhaps didn&#8217;t have as much fun: The local affiliate is interrupting the 4th quarter of the #NBAFinals to show city council election results!!!#TrappedInAHellHole &mdash; Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) June 13, 2012 And Scott Feschuk rounded up the [&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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57,28,18],"tags":[682,238,824],"class_list":["post-15480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-media","category-sports","tag-manitoba","tag-offensensitivity","tag-winnipeg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-41G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15484,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480\/revisions\/15484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}