{"id":383,"date":"2005-02-15T15:54:52","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T23:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2005-02-15T15:54:52","modified_gmt":"2005-02-15T23:54:52","slug":"shoes-part-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Shoes!  Part 17."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered why the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2005\/02\/15\/bc-budget050215.html\"> CBC page<\/a> that reported the new (improved!  sucking up!  not gonna help!)  Liberal Budget included a picture of the Finance Minister holding some running shoes.  <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he is being chased out of town?  I hoped.  But no.  My invaluable resource, Co-worker A, told me it&#8217;s a tradition that the finance minister wears new shoes on budget day.  And I said, &#8220;YOU LIE!&#8221; but he said no and I went to the internet and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parl.gc.ca\/information\/about\/process\/info\/BudgetShoes.asp?lang=E&#038;Hist=N\"> it&#8217;s true! <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> So now I know what to be when I grow up: A Finance Minister!  New shoes every year!  Maybe I need to be several Finance Ministers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered why the CBC page that reported the new (improved! sucking up! not gonna help!) Liberal Budget included a picture of the Finance Minister holding some running shoes. Perhaps he is being chased out of town? I hoped. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}