{"id":465,"date":"2006-01-23T22:37:36","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=465"},"modified":"2006-01-23T22:37:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T06:37:36","slug":"more-musings-after-a-night-of-following-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2006\/01\/23\/more-musings-after-a-night-of-following-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"More musings after a night of following election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Whoa, why does Steven Harper&#8217;s speech suddenly sound like an Oscar acceptance speech?<\/li>\n<li>Why is Steven Harper still so scary?<\/li>\n<li>I like the fact that Paul Martin played cards while the election results were coming in. It reminded me of a certain game played in a certain green room (which wasn&#8217;t really green and didn&#8217;t have much in the way of food, as I recall). That was awesome.<\/li>\n<li>Some of those races are really close O_o<\/li>\n<li>Not in the city, though, sadly. \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>Oh ho ho, and it was Richard&#8217;s sister who took my ballot. Then again, the only other time I remember seeing her is at 7 am in the morning five years ago, so&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I have nothing to say about Jack Layton. This makes me sad. I&#8217;m glad his wife got elected, though. That&#8217;s going to make for some good newspaper fodder in the months ahead.<\/li>\n<li>I thought it was kind of obvious that a Liberal-NDP coalition was a possibility even before the TV guys swarmed all over it. I also thought it was equally obvious that it wasn&#8217;t really going to happen, especially given that the last time such a coalition was formed was in 1925. I mean&#8230;. really.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, I do have something to say about Jack Layton after all. I was disappointed that his supporters booed Harper. Not really necessary, and it just makes you look like sore losers anyway. And this coming from someone who really, really doesn&#8217;t like Harper!<\/li>\n<li>Do you ever wonder what those &#8216;congratulatory&#8217; phone calls are like? &#8220;Hey, Steve? It&#8217;s Paul. Good job on the election, buddy. &#8216;Grats.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I really wonder who the one &#8220;other&#8221; candidate elected is.<\/li>\n<li>Did I mention that Steven Harper is scary?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa, why does Steven Harper&#8217;s speech suddenly sound like an Oscar acceptance speech? Why is Steven Harper still so scary? I like the fact that Paul Martin played cards while the election results were coming in. It reminded me of a certain game played in a certain green room (which wasn&#8217;t really green and didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","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-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}