{"id":20545,"date":"2013-06-05T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20545"},"modified":"2013-06-05T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T12:59:00","slug":"latest-rob-ford-video-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/latest-rob-ford-video-rumour\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Rob Ford video rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Toronto Sun<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2013\/06\/04\/alleged-rob-ford-crack-video-gone-gawker\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Yuen<\/a> says the quest to track down the video that allegedly shows Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack may be fruitless:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Cook, the editor of New York-based gossip website <em>Gawker<\/em>, said Tuesday the alleged Rob Ford crack video might be \u201cgone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cook said the news came from the intermediary he had been dealing with to obtain the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intermediary called to tell me (Friday) that he had finally heard from the owner. And his message was: \u2018It\u2019s gone. Leave me alone,\u2019\u201d Cook said on the website. \u201cIt was, the intermediary told me, a short conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes just after a week <em>Gawker<\/em>, which broke the story of the alleged video, reached its $200,000 Crackstarter goal. The website has been holding on to the money in hopes of the seller will come forward.<\/p>\n<p>The footage allegedly shows Mayor Rob Ford smoking what appears to be crack. Ford has denied the existence of the video and insisted he does not smoke crack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Toronto Sun, Jenny Yuen says the quest to track down the video that allegedly shows Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack may be fruitless: John Cook, the editor of New York-based gossip website Gawker, said Tuesday the alleged Rob Ford crack video might be \u201cgone.\u201d Cook said the news came from the intermediary [&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":[6,28,53],"tags":[119,636,413,207],"class_list":["post-20545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","tag-drugs","tag-robford","tag-scandal","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5ln","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20545","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=20545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20546,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20545\/revisions\/20546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}