{"id":11161,"date":"2014-03-10T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=11161"},"modified":"2014-03-10T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T14:46:10","slug":"an-oldie-for-the-new-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/an-oldie-for-the-new-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"An oldie for the new elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5881\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/my-take-on-quebec-politics\/pq-plq\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pq-plq.png\" data-orig-size=\"840,664\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pq-plq\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pq-plq.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pq-plq.png\" alt=\"pq-plq\" width=\"640\" height=\"521\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5881\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/my-take-on-quebec-politics\/\" title=\"My take on Quebec politics\">here<\/a>, but just as appropriate now (except the PLQ talking head is just as bad). Having said that, even though I can&#8217;t vote at the moment, for those who can, please please stop the insanity. Quebec does NOT need another independence referendum. It needs to stop the brain drain, keep talented people, attract and support businesses, shore up its economy and repair its crumbling infrastructure. Stupid language protectionism and isolationism should not be a priority in the face of everything else.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First published here, but just as appropriate now (except the PLQ talking head is just as bad). Having said that, even though I can&#8217;t vote at the moment, for those who can, please please stop the insanity. Quebec does NOT need another independence referendum. It needs to stop the brain drain, keep talented people, attract&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/an-oldie-for-the-new-elections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;An oldie for the new elections&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[473],"class_list":["post-11161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fuck-the-pq"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-2U1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11162,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161\/revisions\/11162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}