{"id":11597,"date":"2020-03-04T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T12:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11597"},"modified":"2020-06-06T08:02:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T12:02:38","slug":"on-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11597","title":{"rendered":"On politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political hot potatoes cannot feed the populous<\/p>\n<p>Watching our legislatures steam and over-boil<\/p>\n<p>They do nothing for the Main Street or our kitchen table<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s political headlines are so far removed from the daily household routine that<\/p>\n<p>there is small wonder people tune out, turn off, and cynically choose to ignore politics<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the real world, there is no grace in failing to answer the call<\/p>\n<p>So how can politicians expect sympathy for flaunting their entitlements<\/p>\n<p>For dancing, bobbing and weaving, to avoid addressing reality and facts<\/p>\n<p>For kicking all those who have trusted them<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Chris George\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political hot potatoes cannot feed the populous Watching our legislatures steam and over-boil They do nothing for the Main Street or our kitchen table &nbsp; Today\u2019s political headlines are so far removed from the daily household routine that there is small wonder people tune out, turn off, and cynically choose to ignore politics &nbsp; In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11599,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions\/11599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}