{"id":35425,"date":"2016-03-22T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T20:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=35425"},"modified":"2016-03-22T16:52:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T20:52:20","slug":"coffee-break-rob-ford-toronto-will-never-forget-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2016\/03\/22\/coffee-break-rob-ford-toronto-will-never-forget-you\/","title":{"rendered":"COFFEE BREAK | Remembering Rob Ford And The Opera That He Inspired"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0H-PJtdet0w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>With today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/rob-ford-1.3489457\">somber news<\/a> that former Toronto mayor Rob Ford has died at the age of 46, we bring you something to remember him by \u2013 an aria from <em>Rob Ford, The Opera<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While Rob Ford never got to see the opera that he inspired back in 2012, it&#8217;s also very likely he did not know his\u00a0Puccini from his Linguini. He was a colourful man with a personality as big as his\u00a0frame. Love him or hate him, he lived life as big an opera, and he will never be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Video: Rob Ford aria, arranged and written by Topher Mokrzewski, resident conductor with the Calgary Opera. Alex Beley and Tyler Fitzgerald sing as the Ford Nation Chorus.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Follow\u00a0<span class=\"s2\">Musical Toronto on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LudwigVanToronto\/?fref=ts\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for the latest classical and opera news, pretty pics, funny stuff, and an insider POV.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With today&#8217;s somber news that former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, has died at the age of 46, we bring you something to remember him by: Rob Ford, The Opera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":35428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5723,4932,43],"tags":[2855],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/robfordshadow.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-9dn","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35425"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35438,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35425\/revisions\/35438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35425"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=35425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}