{"id":35,"date":"2003-12-15T08:10:27","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T12:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2007-08-05T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T14:52:19","slug":"enoch-the-money-mart-ad-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/enoch-the-money-mart-ad-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Enoch, the Money Mart ad guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems, by an almost impossible coincidence, that I&#8217;ve spoken to &#8220;Uncle Angus&#8221; from the Money Mart ad. I learnt from a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguineggs.ab.ca\/\">Penguin Eggs<\/a>, a Canadian folk music magazine, that the part is played by Scottish-Canadian singer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enochkent.ca\/\">Enoch Kent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May 2002, before we had a place to live (and probably long before Enoch knew he&#8217;d play this part on TV), famed Toronto Glaswegian (well, okay, from Busby) Tam Kearney and his wife Lynn very kindly offered their place as a house-sit. Tam and Enoch were working on a recording at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Just before Tam and Lynn got back, I answered the phone. Enoch, getting a Scottish voice on the line, very quickly launched into a torrent of things they had to do before the recording could be released on CD.<\/p>\n<p>It took me a while to convince Enoch that, no, I wasn&#8217;t Tam, and yes, he&#8217;d be back in a couple of days. That Scottish accent of mine can really get me into trouble at times.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Enoch needs the money from the ads. Buy his CDs instead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems, by an almost impossible coincidence, that I&#8217;ve spoken to &#8220;Uncle Angus&#8221; from the Money Mart ad. I learnt from a copy of Penguin Eggs, a Canadian folk music magazine, that the part is played by Scottish-Canadian singer Enoch Kent. Back in May 2002, before we had a place to live (and probably long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[749,750,747],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","category-the-old-country","tag-busby","tag-enoch","tag-money_mart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}