{"id":12642,"date":"2010-07-15T13:27:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T17:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=12642"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:26:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:26:35","slug":"video-nothing-is-higher-than-an-architect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/07\/15\/video-nothing-is-higher-than-an-architect\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Nothing is higher than an architect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"475\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0DUPfQCvHXw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0DUPfQCvHXw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"475\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you live in a place without air conditioning than you can relate to my current plight: the heat wave is making it difficult for me\u00a0to sleep at night. When I find myself wide awake and sweating buckets at 3am, I sometimes sit on my couch, place the fan directly in front of me and watch a bit of late night TV.<\/p>\n<p>The other night\/morning, the TV gods were kind to me: they offered up a Seinfeld episode where George Costanza is handing out a scholarship, in honour of his late fianc\u00e9e, to a kid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pCF-DUR0GmU\">who aspires to be an architect<\/a> (George&#8217;s fake occupation). The recipient later changes his mind and wants to be a city planner, which earns George&#8217;s wrath: he revokes the scholarship. The kid ends up in a gang who later confront George by demanding that he give back the scholarship and let the kid become a city planner.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was late, so I obviously thought it was hysterical. It led me to YouTube where I was able to find a great collection of George pretending to be an architect. 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