{"id":561,"date":"2008-09-08T05:40:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T09:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2008-09-08T11:53:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:53:51","slug":"election-its-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Election: It&#8217;s On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cons have been campaigning non-stop since the last election, itching to throw down by making nearly every issue in parliament a confidence vote. Finally sick of working within a surprisingly functional minority government, Harper has broken his <em>own <\/em>fixed election date legislation and called an election. I&#8217;m actually quite surprised that it&#8217;s coming &#8212; I felt <em>sure <\/em>the Governor General would slap him about the head with his own fixed election date, and give Dion a shot at being <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_Byng_Affair\">PM for a week<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Looks like I&#8217;m going to have to get off my butt and do some thorough research into the Liberal Green Shift plan &#8212; though my riding is likely to go Liberal anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cons have been campaigning non-stop since the last election, itching to throw down by making nearly every issue in parliament a confidence vote. Finally sick of working within a surprisingly functional minority government, Harper has broken his own fixed election date legislation and called an election. I&#8217;m actually quite surprised that it&#8217;s coming &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}