{"id":716,"date":"2017-04-20T14:17:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T14:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2017-04-20T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T14:33:02","slug":"tax-mascot-has-big-plans-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Tax Mascot has big plans for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/7tM4lxi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-717\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/7tM4lxi-151x300.png\" alt=\"7tM4lxi\" width=\"151\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/7tM4lxi-151x300.png 151w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/7tM4lxi.png 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 \u201cI\u2019ve got a B.A. in theatre arts\u201d said a hopeful Steve Cochrane this past Wednesday as he stood on the corner of Jefferson and Tecumseh Road East in Windsor.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFour years at Acadia University and my career is on its way\u201d he went on to say while trying to encourage passers-by to file their taxes from inside his tax-maple-leaf mascot suit.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing here today is the natural progression of my career. I\u2019d done community theatre during high school and even got\u00a0cast as an extra one year in a Transformers movie so spending 120 thousand dollars on my theatre degree is a small price to pay to get to this spot\u201d Cochrane said while waving at passing motorists.<\/p>\n<p>Detailing his career trajectory Cochrane described his next steps \u201cAnother year as a corporate tax mascot, while still doing some local theatre and hopefully a stop off at some place like Cedar Point to work as an amusement park mascot and then the big time, Disney World.\u00a0\u00a0 It is my dream to one day be Mickey Mouse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can enjoy Steve Cochrane\u2019s current performance between now and the end of April at the corner of Jefferson and Tecumseh Road East in Windsor, Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 \u201cI\u2019ve got a B.A. in theatre arts\u201d said a hopeful Steve Cochrane this past Wednesday as he stood on the corner of Jefferson and Tecumseh Road East in Windsor.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFour years at Acadia University and my career &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=716\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}