{"id":641,"date":"2004-12-29T12:52:12","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T15:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=641"},"modified":"2004-12-29T12:52:12","modified_gmt":"2004-12-29T15:52:12","slug":"now-hey-wait-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Now, hey. Wait a minute."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>R<\/span>eading about the tidal wave\/earthquake disaster in Asia, I noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/4132055.stm\">most media outlets<\/a> mention that Swedish tourists have been hit the hardest. The Swedish foreign minister, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.gov.se\/sb\/d\/1258\">Laila Freivalds<\/a>, says:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;You won&#8217;t find many people in Sweden who don&#8217;t have some personal link to this tragedy.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Going from the Foreign minister&#8217;s page there to the Government&#8217;s gallery page I noticed something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.gov.se\/sb\/d\/2719;jsessionid=aT5P05WABx9c\">that took me by surprise<\/a>, but then on afterthought&#8230;not completely: women make up half of the members of the Swedish cabinet. <em>Take that<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading about the tidal wave\/earthquake disaster in Asia, I noticed that most media outlets mention that Swedish tourists have been hit the hardest. The Swedish foreign minister, Laila Freivalds, says: &nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;You won&#8217;t find many people in Sweden who don&#8217;t have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=641\">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\/641"}],"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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}