{"id":450,"date":"2005-05-18T06:16:01","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T14:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2005-05-18T06:20:02","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T14:20:02","slug":"oh-this-boils-my-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Oh, this Boils My Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I came home from volunteering last night, Tim Stevenson, the NDP candidate for my riding of Vancouver-Burrard, had a clear lead.  By the time I had eaten my KD and watched Gordo&#8217;s acceptance speech on mute (golden decade!  moving forward!  moving forward to golden opportunity!  forward!), Lorne &#8220;I&#8217;ll chase you down the street, bad panhandler man, because you&#8217;re a menace to society&#8221; Mayencourt had a slight edge.  And this morning, it appears that Lorne-o has won.  How many votes more than Tim did he get?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/elections\/bc2005\/fragments\/generated\/ridings\/riding64.html\"> 13.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forget the idea of vote splitting with the Green Party.  Who the fuck voted for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platinumparty.org\">  Platinum Party<\/a>? (&#8220;The members of our party are less concerned with policy of the current regime and more concerned about the actual structure of it.&#8221;  Yeah?  I&#8217;m concerned about your SENTENCE STRUCTURE.)  I&#8217;m just curious, because the Platinum Party got 26 votes and Tim needed those votes.  Or they could&#8217;ve gone to Lorne-o and made his victory a little less &#8211; um &#8211; asshat.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry.  Words fail.  Asshat asshat asshat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I came home from volunteering last night, Tim Stevenson, the NDP candidate for my riding of Vancouver-Burrard, had a clear lead. By the time I had eaten my KD and watched Gordo&#8217;s acceptance speech on mute (golden decade! moving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=450\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiots","category-serious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","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=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}