{"id":762,"date":"2004-11-30T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2004\/11\/30\/president-comes-to-town\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:51:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:51:20","slug":"president-comes-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2004\/11\/30\/president-comes-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"The President comes to town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are we taking this whole President&#8217;s visit thing too seriously? I mean really, he&#8217;s just coming to chat. And yet our security forces have created the largest security operation in our history (according to one news report) to protect one man. Hmmm&#8230;Does anyone deserve that?<\/p>\n<p>The CBC is doing an interesting item all day today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/background\/continentaldivide\/moore.html\">This link<\/a> will take you to a blog from Ottawa reporter Paddy Moore, who&#8217;s walking around Ottawa with a blackberry and a camera phone, filing constantly. It&#8217;s kind of interesting, although he seems to always be struggling to find a decent place to see what&#8217;s going on. Not too exciting, but worth a look.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I should be more excited about all this, but somehow, it just seems like so much nonsense. Sort of a case of everyone taking themselves way too seriously. I can&#8217;t help but compare what&#8217;s going on today to what is happening in Kiev. There, thousands of people are milling about, with police virtually nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Kiev, Salon.com has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2004\/11\/30\/ukraine_election\/index.html\">interesting item<\/a> comparing the way that election fraud is treated in Ukraine with what&#8217;s happened in Ohio. Take a look. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we taking this whole President&#8217;s visit thing too seriously? I mean really, he&#8217;s just coming to chat. And yet our security forces have created the largest security operation in our history (according to one news report) to protect one man. Hmmm&#8230;Does anyone deserve that? The CBC is doing an interesting item all day today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-ci","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}