{"id":321,"date":"2008-03-24T12:17:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T12:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:47","slug":"im-counting-on-stan-weir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m counting on Stan Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many <a href=\"http:\/\/oilers.nhl.com\">Oilers<\/a> fans, I&#8217;m feeling the <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.canada.com\/edmontonjournal\/blogs\/hockey\/archive\/2008\/03\/17\/oilers-for-march-24.aspx\">Stan Weir magic<\/a>. Stan is going to lead us into the playoffs, I just know it. As I learned today on <a href=\"http:\/\/lowetide.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/wild-at-oilers-g7707-08.html\">Lowetide<\/a>, one of the best Oilers blogs there is,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\">Stan Weir wrote the words to &#8220;O Canada.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\">Many English words have come from the legend of Stan Weir. These include substantial, standoff, standard and it is no coincidence that all hockey players dream of winning the Stanley Cup.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\">Stan Weir can touch MC Hammer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\">Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Stan Weir pajamas<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\">Stan Weir eats beef jerky and craps gunpowder.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\">Stan Weir was what Willis was talkin&#8217; about.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\">Paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper. Stan Weir beats them all.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s what this English professor calls poetry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many Oilers fans, I&#8217;m feeling the Stan Weir magic. Stan is going to lead us into the playoffs, I just know it. As I learned today on Lowetide, one of the best Oilers blogs there is, Stan Weir wrote the words to &#8220;O Canada.&#8221; Many English words have come from the legend of Stan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-hockey-of-course"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}