{"id":1034,"date":"2005-09-12T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/09\/12\/giver\/"},"modified":"2005-09-12T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T15:31:00","slug":"giver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/12\/giver\/","title":{"rendered":"Give&rsquo;r"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&laquo; Then you have those gallic cutups next door in Quebec, with their comfy language barrier, making all manner of hoo-hah and fun with their own healthy star system and hit shows.<\/p>\n<p>Americans, you owe yourself a trip to Montreal, just to see a star system and celeb machine right there, right under your nose, that you&rsquo;ve never, ever heard of. It&rsquo;s like the days before soundscan when the music industry hadn&rsquo;t yet realized that hip hop was the biggest musical form in the USA, and people were still paying attention, oh, I don&rsquo;t know&#8230;to Tim McGraw&rsquo;s hat or something.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in Toronto, in what we on the hustings call &laquo; English Canada, &raquo; the path to television and to creativity is at best, fraught, and at worst, suicide-inducing. &raquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Find out more about the fascinating world of English Canadian television from the point of view of a screenwriter on <a href=\"http:\/\/heywriterboy.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/difference.html\">Dead Things on Sticks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&laquo; Then you have those gallic cutups next door in Quebec, with their comfy language barrier, making all manner of hoo-hah and fun with their own healthy star system and hit shows. Americans, you owe yourself a trip to Montreal, just to see a star system and celeb machine right there, right under your nose,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/12\/giver\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give&rsquo;r<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}