{"id":1102,"date":"2006-01-23T18:38:12","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2006-01-23T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T18:38:12","slug":"northern_neighb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"Northern Neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most Americans probably don’t even know that Canada has an election today<\/A>, but I’ve been reading with trepidation some of the Canadian news<\/A> sites<\/A> over the last few days.  I know I have a few Canadian readers and I have one question for you: WTF?  Are you guys really going to elect a Bush-lite pretty boy as prime minister?  I know the Liberals kind of screwed up and could probably teach our Republicans a thing or two about corruption, but I can’t imagine that Canadians are all that eager to inaugurate a conservative government that seems ready to wage the same culture wars that we’ve been fighting here in the United States.  We American progressives have long looked to Canada as a model for the kind of economic and social policies that we dream about implementing here.  Don’t start letting us down now. <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most Americans probably don’t even know that Canada has an election today, but I’ve been reading with trepidation some of the Canadian news sites over the last few days.  I know I have a few Canadian readers and I have one question for you: WTF?  Are you guys really going to elect a Bush-lite pretty […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-hM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}