{"id":916,"date":"2006-02-02T20:38:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=916"},"modified":"2006-02-02T20:38:45","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:38:45","slug":"a-dutch-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"A Dutch &#8220;Go&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> see that <a id=\"p915\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=915\" title=\"Cabinet\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/thecabi_net.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cabinet\" height=\"92\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/world\/national\/2006\/02\/02\/20060202-dutchvote.html\">the Dutch parliament voted &#8216;Yes&#8217; for a mission to Afghanistan<\/a>, a vote that made it in this mornings CBC&#8217;s &#8216;Morning news&#8217; (Oh, we did have  a dumping of snow yesterday too, but we managed as usual). According to the CBC, polls revealed that around 60 (or 80, I can&#8217;t remember) percent of the Dutch were against such a mission. Obviously, the CBC reporter added, The Netherlands still haven&#8217;t forgotten about the Bosnia debacle. I bet the blogosphere is crowing this as another win in the fight against <em>Terrorism<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu.nl\/news\/667042\/11\/Kamer_steunt_missie_Uruzgan_%28video%29.html\">More here<\/a> (Dutch only, sorry).\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where CBC got the poll numbers from though: I read that the Dutch coalition partners mentioned that there was obviously a &#8216;broad consensus for the mission&#8217; (hence the go-ahead). If any Dutch citizen could point to numbers, please do so in the comments.\n<\/p>\n<p>Local stuff: It is Groundhog Day today and local critter cq. groundhog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2006\/02\/02\/groundhog-060202.html\">&#8216;Shubenacedie Sam&#8217;<\/a> predicted that Spring is just around the corner. You don&#8217;t have those kind of things in Europe, do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that the Dutch parliament voted &#8216;Yes&#8217; for a mission to Afghanistan, a vote that made it in this mornings CBC&#8217;s &#8216;Morning news&#8217; (Oh, we did have a dumping of snow yesterday too, but we managed as usual). According &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=916\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}