{"id":17229,"date":"2011-01-14T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=17229"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:06:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:06:44","slug":"don-cherry-responds-to-our-pinko-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/01\/14\/don-cherry-responds-to-our-pinko-buttons\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Cherry responds to our Pinko buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-17230\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/01\/14\/don-cherry-responds-to-our-pinko-buttons\/cheery-postcard\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17230\" title=\"cheery-postcard\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/01\/cheery-postcard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/01\/cheery-postcard.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/01\/cheery-postcard-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back when the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/12\/20\/10000-pinkos-cant-be-wrong\/\">Pinko button-craze was full blown<\/a>, we sent a handful of buttons and magnets to Don Cherry and his sidekick Ron MacLean. We hoped he&#8217;d wear a button on his weekly Coach&#8217;s Corner, but he shied away from even mentioning the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Spacing received a postcard from Cherry. On the front of the card he wrote &#8220;thanks for helping the Home&#8221;, a reference to the Darling Home for Kids where some of the proceeds from the button sales will end up. On the back he also wrote, &#8220;There [sic] still &#8216;Left Wing Pinkos&#8217; to me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The editors had a good laugh about it and placed it on the window sill with our outdated holiday postcards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when the Pinko button-craze was full blown, we sent a handful of buttons and magnets to Don Cherry and his sidekick Ron MacLean. We hoped he&#8217;d wear a button on his weekly Coach&#8217;s Corner, but he shied away from even mentioning the incident. Yesterday, Spacing received a postcard from Cherry. 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