{"id":118,"date":"2005-05-20T23:02:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T02:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=118"},"modified":"2005-05-20T23:05:05","modified_gmt":"2005-05-21T02:05:05","slug":"dogs-and-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Dogs and Video Games."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>ith he dust settling at Parliament Hill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/background\/election2005\/\">that is after the crucial voting yesterday<\/a>, there were plenty of interviews with politicians, analysts, experts and others today.\n<\/p>\n<p>Before I go over to today&#8217;s stuff, there was one weird moment during last night&#8217;s televization of the Vote of Confidence 2005 (cue in: tune of Dragnet): when it was the NDP&#8217;s turn to start voting  on Bill C-38, the camera panned to the corner, to show NDP MPs congratulating each other and mr. Layton. Maybe I was the only one to notice, but did I see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edbroadbent.ca\/\">mr. Ed Broadbent<\/a> smile and wink at mr. Layton, or was that just my imagination?\n<\/p>\n<p>Today: There was a brief interlude with mr. Peter McKay, vice-vice-vice-leader (can&#8217;t think of the right word) of the Conservative Party. On being asked what he was going to do over the weekend he told the press: &#8216;Walk my dog. <em>At least dogs are loyal<\/em>&#8216;. Ha-ha-ha. The laughter. Such a <em>smart<\/em> and funny remark!\n<\/p>\n<p>I noticed that the Dutch &#8220;No&#8221; Camp is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/4565811.stm\">gaining traction<\/a> in the Netherlands. That&#8217;s no against a new European constitution and they (the Dutch) apparently vote on it in a special referendum. However, the referendum itself is <em>purely<\/em> consultative, which means that politicians will take note of any (any) opposition. Sure.\n<\/p>\n<p>And then the question that has been sitting on this table for way too long: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/talking_point\/4558785.stm\">are video games only for men<\/a>?  Dogs are, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With he dust settling at Parliament Hill, that is after the crucial voting yesterday, there were plenty of interviews with politicians, analysts, experts and others today. Before I go over to today&#8217;s stuff, there was one weird moment during last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=118\">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":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"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=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}