{"id":366,"date":"2009-02-25T02:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/02\/25\/the-bbc-on-obamas-visit-to-canada\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T02:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T02:24:00","slug":"the-bbc-on-obamas-visit-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/02\/25\/the-bbc-on-obamas-visit-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC on Obama&#8217;s visit to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(From before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2009\/02\/19\/obama-visit.html\">actual event<\/a>)<br \/><span style=\"color:#000099\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color:#000099\">&#8220;Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a Conservative who leads a minority government, and it would be fair to say that he has avoided the temptations of charisma in doing so. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/em><em><span style=\"color:#000099\">[&#8230;]*<br \/><\/span><br \/><\/em><em><span style=\"color:#000099\">The contrast with the new American president could hardly be greater.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><br \/>Ha!<\/p>\n<p>Hahahahaha!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7898464.stm\">Go read<\/a>, it&#8217;s full of lots of good stuff about trade, the environment, Afghanistan, etc.<\/p>\n<p>*I just deleted a subheading, I&#8217;m not doing a Creationist-style quote mine that completely changes the context and meaning of the quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(From before the actual event) &#8220;Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a Conservative who leads a minority government, and it would be fair to say that he has avoided the temptations of charisma in doing so. [&#8230;]*The contrast with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/02\/25\/the-bbc-on-obamas-visit-to-canada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}