{"id":5051,"date":"2013-07-17T22:06:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T02:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:50:40","slug":"wednesday-july-17-2013-tim-burton-predicted-torontos-fate-in-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5051","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, July 17, 2013 \u2014 Tim Burton Predicted Toronto\u2019s Fate in&nbsp;1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-07-17-BLOG-Mayor-Penguin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5052\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-07-17-BLOG-Mayor-Penguin.jpg\" alt=\"13-07-17 BLOG Mayor Penguin\" width=\"483\" height=\"308\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When Rob Ford was elect\u00aded May\u00ador of Toron\u00adto in 2010, I felt no hes\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion in pre\u00addict\u00ading that he would unleash a tidal wave of chaos, incom\u00adpe\u00adtence and cor\u00adrup\u00adtion on our fair city.&nbsp;His type of pho\u00adny-baloney \u201cpop\u00adulism\u201d was noth\u00ading new to me, and the results pre\u00addictable.&nbsp;My eval\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion has been con\u00adfirmed a thou\u00adsand times&nbsp;over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This evening, I was watch\u00ading Tim Bur\u00adton\u2019s sec\u00adond Bat\u00adman film, <em>Bat\u00adman Returns<\/em> (1992), and was in stitch\u00ades over the obvi\u00adous resem\u00adblance between Ford\u2019s cam\u00adpaign and per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty, and the Pen\u00adguin, as por\u00adtrayed by Dan\u00adny DeVi\u00adto.&nbsp;The Pen\u00adguin runs for may\u00ador of Gotham City on pret\u00adty much the same plat\u00adform, and his phys\u00adi\u00adcal resem\u00adblance to Ford makes it all the more delight\u00adful.&nbsp;Think\u00ading I might find a good still from the film on the inter\u00adnet to illus\u00adtrate my point, I dis\u00adcov\u00adered that many oth\u00ader peo\u00adple had made the same con\u00adnec\u00adtion.&nbsp;The above image was all over the web.&nbsp;Kudos to the anony\u00admous humourist who cre\u00adat\u00aded&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Rob Ford was elect\u00aded May\u00ador of Toron\u00adto in 2010, I felt no hes\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion in pre\u00addict\u00ading that he would unleash a tidal wave of chaos, incom\u00adpe\u00adtence and cor\u00adrup\u00adtion on our fair city.&nbsp;His type of pho\u00adny-baloney \u201cpop\u00adulism\u201d was noth\u00ading new&nbsp;to&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5051\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-an-blog-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7549,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/7549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}