{"id":1139,"date":"2006-07-01T11:09:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T14:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2006-07-02T07:06:27","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T10:06:27","slug":"one-percent-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"One Percent Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>f you weren&#8217;t aware of it: it&#8217;s Canada Day today and it&#8217;s also the day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/background\/cdngovernment\/taxchanges.html\">new tax changes will take effect<\/a>, courtesy of the Government of Canada. A whopping <em>one percent<\/em>. I predict spending sprees when the long holiday is over, next week. It&#8217;s brilliant, actually: Even Canada&#8217;s military hardware purchases are cheaper now too! That is, if built in Canada, naturally.\n<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something weird going on in The Netherlands, after the fall of the Cabinet. From what I understand is that the queen most likely will ask the prime-minister to form a <em>minority<\/em> government until the elections later this Fall. Normally, if a government falls all ministers take a &#8216;passive&#8217; role until elections.\n<\/p>\n<p>The WorldCup is still around. Today, the <strike>British<\/strike> English play the Portuguese, which probably will be just as exciting as watching the taxrate change from 15 to 14% <sup>1<\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Happy and safe Canada Day today.\n<\/p>\n<p><small><sup>1<\/sup> OK, then, I say it&#8217;s going to be <strike>2-1<\/strike> <strike>1-0<\/strike> for the English.<br \/>\nMuch later: They fricking lost.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you weren&#8217;t aware of it: it&#8217;s Canada Day today and it&#8217;s also the day new tax changes will take effect, courtesy of the Government of Canada. A whopping one percent. I predict spending sprees when the long holiday is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}