{"id":373,"date":"2005-11-29T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T13:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2005\/11\/29\/ding_dong\/"},"modified":"2005-11-29T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T13:34:36","slug":"ding_dong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2005\/11\/29\/ding_dong\/","title":{"rendered":"Ding! Dong!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elections.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/images\/elections.jpg\" width=\"282\" height=\"335\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>The wicked witch is, well, not dead, as such. Seriously ill, perhaps. I&#8217;m sure I heard the witch sneeze.<br \/>\nThanks to an overwhelming non-confidence vote yesterday evening, Canadians are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canadavotes2006\/national\/2005\/11\/29\/elxn-called.html\">headed to the polls<\/a> in January. We are, by and large, nonplussed.<br \/>\nThese are our candidates. I generously did not use the Village People Harper picture, but I am not above including it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/images\/harperinleather.html\">as a popup<\/a>.<br \/>\nWhy is this election special? Because it serves no purpose whatsoever, other than ridding Montreal streets of mayoral election posters to make room for federal election posters. Chances are, two months from now, there will be a minority Liberal government. With Paul Martin at the helm. With Layton on board to provide NDP support. And Harper across the floor. Near Duceppe.<br \/>\nPlus ca change&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wicked witch is, well, not dead, as such. Seriously ill, perhaps. I&#8217;m sure I heard the witch sneeze. Thanks to an overwhelming non-confidence vote yesterday evening, Canadians are headed to the polls in January. We are, by and large, nonplussed. These are our candidates. I generously did not use the Village People Harper picture, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2005\/11\/29\/ding_dong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ding! Dong!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}