{"id":8142,"date":"2011-07-21T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=8142"},"modified":"2017-11-13T01:39:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T20:39:44","slug":"marshall-mcluhan-100-years-old-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/marshall-mcluhan-100-years-old-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall McLuhan&#8230; 100 years old today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8143\" title=\"Marshall_McLuhan_stamp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marshall_McLuhan_stamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"509\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The great Canadian educator, philosopher, scholar, literary critic, rhetorician, and communication theorist Herbert Marshall McLuhan was born 100 years ago today, in Edmonton\u2014though he grew up and studied here in the \u2018Peg before moving on to Cambridge, Windsor, Toronto\u2026 and the world stage. McLuhan was a man of idioms and idiosyncrasies, deeply intelligent, and a soothsayer\u2026 learn more about him\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marshall_McLuhan\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Anyone who follows this blog knows that I quote McLuhan regularly (almost an understatement)\u2026 as you can witness <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?s=marshall+mcluhan&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #888888;\">. I regret that I never got to meet him in person, though I did become acquainted with one of his daughters and her husband some years ago\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong><em>Thanks for all you left us to ponder, Marshall!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Image: one of a special set of Millennium stamps issued by Canada Post.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada The great Canadian educator, philosopher, scholar, literary critic, rhetorician, and communication theorist Herbert Marshall McLuhan was born 100 years ago today, in Edmonton\u2014though he grew up and studied here in the \u2018Peg before moving on to Cambridge, Windsor, Toronto\u2026 and the world stage. McLuhan was a man of idioms and idiosyncrasies, deeply intelligent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,11,13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15520,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions\/15520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}