{"id":1474,"date":"2008-10-14T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2008-10-14T19:55:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T23:55:11","slug":"its-election-day-btw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/14\/its-election-day-btw\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Election Day, BTW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20081014.welectionresults\/BNStory\/National\/home\">Canada is going to the polls<\/a> for what, it&#8217;s eleventeenth time in a few years?\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_5679.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imagefloatleft\" title=\"img_5679\" src=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_5679.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian Flag\" width=\"174\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>What&#8217;s interesting is that it will probably give the Conservatives exactly what it was they used as a reason to call an election in the first place &#8211; a minority government.\u00c2\u00a0 I have no idea how how much stock to put in the speculation about a coalition between the remaining parties (who would represent a sizeable majority of the population), but it certainly would be an interesting thing to watch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> You won&#8217;t find much in the way of result until 10pm EDT.\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 From the Globe &amp; Mail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>To our readers:<\/strong> Federal election law prohibits the publication of any results of today&#8217;s federal election before 10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent our readers from inadvertently breaking that law by posting references to something they may have seen elsewhere, globeandmail.com will be closing comments on all articles on our website from 7 p.m. ET when the first polls close in Newfoundland until 10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>We will turn comments back on at 10 p.m. ET on all articles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is going to the polls for what, it&#8217;s eleventeenth time in a few years?\u00c2\u00a0 What&#8217;s interesting is that it will probably give the Conservatives exactly what it was they used as a reason to call an election in the first place &#8211; a minority government.\u00c2\u00a0 I have no idea how how much stock to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}