{"id":2003,"date":"2008-09-08T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2008-09-12T19:33:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T22:33:59","slug":"point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2003","title":{"rendered":"Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/span>esterday, leftovers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2005\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2005\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/racco_ons-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"racco_ons\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2005\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/racco_ons-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/racco_ons-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/racco_ons.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>from Hanna flew past the Maritimes, dumping a whole bunch of rain for almost a whole day: This lead to some troublesome driving Sunday and Monday morning (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/new-brunswick\/story\/2008\/09\/08\/nb-sj-rain.html\">CBC<\/a>). Generally, this year the weather hasn&#8217;t cooperated a lot: according to Saint Johners we had more rain (and fog) days than the previous years. Here&#8217;s hoping that the same is going to be true for upcoming Winter.\n<\/p>\n<p>I read that the prime-minister has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canadavotes\/story\/2008\/08\/31\/harper-dion.html\">dissolved the parliament and called for an election<\/a>, which is set on October 14th this year. Polls and surveys indicate that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canadavotes\/story\/2008\/09\/04\/poll-results.html\">Conservatives may get a majority<\/a>, which wouldn&#8217;t surprise me: not everybody seems to be familiar with the name of the current Liberal leader, Stephane Dion. I&#8217;m a bit disappointed to see that leaders&#8217; debates will not include the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canadavotes\/story\/2008\/09\/08\/greens-debates.html\">Green&#8217;s Elizabeth May<\/a>. So much for democracy<sup>1<\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Oh: talking about democracy. There&#8217;s a rumour circulating in the neighbourhood that raccoons are tumbling over garbage bins in their hunt for anything editable. If you see this gang of four-legged un-cutesy animals in action, please notify the authorities. Thank you, very much.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\"><sup>1<\/sup> <em>09\/12\/08:<\/em> Looks like May will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canadavotes\/story\/2008\/09\/10\/elxn-may-debates.html\">allowed into the debates<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, leftovers from Hanna flew past the Maritimes, dumping a whole bunch of rain for almost a whole day: This lead to some troublesome driving Sunday and Monday morning (CBC). Generally, this year the weather hasn&#8217;t cooperated a lot: according &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2003\">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":[13,11],"tags":[160,302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003"}],"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=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}