{"id":2287,"date":"2010-04-10T11:54:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2010-04-25T15:41:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T19:41:59","slug":"oh-noes-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"Oh NOES! (part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>rlier today, BBC reported that the Polish president Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash in Russia (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8612825.stm\">link<\/a>). Besides the president, 80 or so other senior politicians died, leaving Poland in a sort of political and constitutional vacuum. It will be interesting to see what&#8217;s next for the Polish people.\n<\/p>\n<p>Politically, Kaczynski was on the centre-right side of the political spectrum: surprisingly, Poland has been ruled by the right since it got rid of the communist party. Of course, the only reason I bring up the death of the Polish president is because he was featured in an older posting (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1151\">&#8220;Oh NOES!&#8221;<\/a>): a couple of years, Poland was the first country that had an <em>identical twin<\/em> take the highest offices (that of President and Prime-Minister). I don&#8217;t think that we&#8217;ll see that again for a long while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erlier today, BBC reported that the Polish president Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash in Russia (link). Besides the president, 80 or so other senior politicians died, leaving Poland in a sort of political and constitutional vacuum. It will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2287\">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":[11],"tags":[58,47,422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287"}],"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=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}