{"id":303,"date":"2003-10-02T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/hoping_for_ontario_liberal_minority_2003.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T18:58:13","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T23:58:13","slug":"hoping_for_ontario_liberal_minority_2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/hoping_for_ontario_liberal_minority_2003.html","title":{"rendered":"My ballot is cast; hoping for a Liberal minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came back from casting my ballot. In the true fashion of representative democracy, I voted for <a href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/ontario\/michael_bryant_st_pauls_2003.html\" title=\"crazed monkey - Michael Bryant for St. Paul's in 2003\">the candidate who I feel will best represent my riding<\/a>. Provincially, I am hoping for a Liberal minority.<\/p>\n<p>My weblog has been getting a lot of hits from people searching for predictions for today&#8217;s election. I am not sure whether they simply cannot wait until tonight to get a good idea of the outcome or whether they wish to know which strategic voting method to employ when casting their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>It is on that note that I now present a provincial election haiku:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cold day in the fall<br \/> Ballots are cast in boxes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/> Warm winds tomorrow<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came back from casting my ballot. In the true fashion of representative democracy, I voted for <a href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/ontario\/michael_bryant_st_pauls_2003.html\" title=\"crazed monkey - Michael Bryant for St. Paul's in 2003\">the candidate who I feel will best represent my riding<\/a>. Provincially, I am hoping for a Liberal minority.<\/p>\n<p>My weblog has been getting a lot of&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/hoping_for_ontario_liberal_minority_2003.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;My ballot is cast; hoping for a Liberal minority&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\/303"}],"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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}