{"id":1255,"date":"2006-01-24T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2006\/01\/24\/conservative\/"},"modified":"2006-01-24T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T15:47:00","slug":"conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/01\/conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ping&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/zestyping.livejournal.com\/171590.html\">not happy<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/zestyping.livejournal.com\/171590.html\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canadavotes\/electionnight\/\">Canada now has a conservative minority government.<\/a>\n\nThis hasn&#8217;t been such a good day, for several reasons.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&#8230; but I think a Conservative minority is the best thing for this country\nright now.  They fully deserve it, as they ran a brilliant campaign, toning\ndown the usual (anti) social rhetoric, and presenting a solidly fiscally\nconservative plan.  They even kept\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailervision.com\/trailer.php?id=166\">their<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rickmercer.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/conservative-cabinet-revealed_09.html\">loons<\/a>\non a leash; no small feat.<\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame Harper&#8217;s such a freak (anti-gay, anti-choice, &#8230;), but he&#8217;ll be\nkept on a short leash with a minority government, especially as the NDP doesn&#8217;t have\nenough seats to give him control of parliament, and he&#8217;s already said he won&#8217;t\nform a coalition with with the separatist BQ.<\/p>\n\n<p>Most importantly though, the Liberals got the kick in the ass they so\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/background\/groupaction\/\">desperately needed<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ping&#8217;s not happy; Canada now has a conservative minority government. This hasn&#8217;t been such a good day, for several reasons. &#8230; but I think a Conservative minority is the best thing for this country right now. They fully deserve it, as they ran a brilliant campaign, toning down the usual (anti) social rhetoric, and presenting [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}