{"id":279,"date":"2003-04-06T19:19:24","date_gmt":"2003-04-06T19:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/?p=279"},"modified":"2015-02-21T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T19:32:57","slug":"bylaw-is-snow-joke-to-rapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/bylaw-is-snow-joke-to-rapper\/","title":{"rendered":"Bylaw Is Snow Joke To Rapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/post-snow-joke_250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Snow with Zaphod owner Eugene Haslam\" title=\"Snow with Zaphod owner Eugene Haslam\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-281\" \/>What happens when you mix Ottawa&#8217;s strict no-smoking bylaws with an invasion of Canadian music industry types? In at least one case, it was trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto hip hopper\/reggae artist Snow showed up at Zaphod Beeblebrox at about 2 a.m. yesterday with a group of leather-clad, Gucci-sunglasses-wearing Missississaugans. They headed straight for the dance floor, and everything was going well until the DJ noticed the smallest member of Snow&#8217;s posse was smoking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Security to the DJ booth,&#8217; he called out over the PA.<\/p>\n<p>Snow, whose Two Hands Clapping was nominated for best reggae recording, graciously mugged for photos with anyone who asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;d like to remind everyone that smoking is prohibited in the bar,&#8217; the DJ piped up about a minute later. &#8216;I don&#8217;t care if your name is Snow.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Snow, born Darrin O&#8217;Brien and raised in the mean streets of North York, flipped.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t smoke, man,&#8217; he screamed as he went after the DJ. &#8216;I&#8217;m not even smoking. Do you see me smoking?&#8217; A 40-something member of Snow&#8217;s posse was forced to restrain him.<\/p>\n<p>Half an hour later it was all peace and love as Snow had calmed down enough to sit down with Zaphod owner Eugene Haslam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when you mix Ottawa&#8217;s strict no-smoking bylaws with an invasion of Canadian music industry types? In at least one case, it was trouble. Toronto hip hopper\/reggae artist Snow showed up at Zaphod Beeblebrox at about 2 a.m. yesterday with a group of leather-clad, Gucci-sunglasses-wearing Missississaugans. They headed straight for the dance floor, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[100,9,82,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}