{"id":299,"date":"2003-10-05T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-05T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/ontario_voters_should_be_ashamed.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T18:57:22","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T23:57:22","slug":"ontario_voters_should_be_ashamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/ontario_voters_should_be_ashamed.html","title":{"rendered":"Ontario voters should be ashamed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1065219008969\" title=\"TheStar.com - Dismal turnout appalls experts\">voter turnout numbers for last Thursday&#8217;s election are at a disappointing 57 per cent<\/a>. By contrast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20030929.welec0929\/BNStory\/National\/\" title=\"PEI Tories make it 3 in a row\">the recent election in <acronym title=\"Prince Edward Island\">PEI<\/acronym> drew 83 per cent of eligible voters<\/a> despite taking place <em>in the aftermath of a hurricane in which half the province lost power<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Words fail me, fellow Ontarians, they really do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1065219008969\" title=\"TheStar.com - Dismal turnout appalls experts\">voter turnout numbers for last Thursday&#8217;s election are at a disappointing 57 per cent<\/a>. By contrast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20030929.welec0929\/BNStory\/National\/\" title=\"PEI Tories make it 3 in a row\">the recent election in PEI drew 83 per cent of eligible voters<\/a> despite taking place in the aftermath of a hurricane in&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/ontario_voters_should_be_ashamed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;Ontario voters should be ashamed&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}