{"id":222,"date":"2007-03-27T13:37:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T13:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:38","slug":"busy-days-but-here-are-a-few-links-to-tide-you-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Busy days, but here are a few links to tide you over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nNo time to write much this week, but here are a few things I would comment on in more detail if I had time:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGraham Swift is one of my favourite writers, so it kills me that I&#8217;ve still not gotten around to reading the Light of Day.  He also has a new book coming out this spring.  <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/podcasts\/0,,1813297,00.html\">Here&#8217;s a new podcast <\/a>of an interview with him from The Guardian.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m very happy about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/hockey\/story\/2007\/03\/26\/hockey-night-in-canada.html\">this<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070327.wxrcbc27\/BNStory\/Entertainment\/?page=rss&amp;id=RTGAM.20070327.wxrcbc27\">news<\/a>&#8230;. Hockey Night in Canada (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/hockey\/hnic\/coachscorner\/\">Coach&#8217;s Corner<\/a>) is a Canadian tradition and perhaps one of our greatest, most visible exports to border communities like Burlington.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI was just interviewed this morning by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpr.net\">Vermont Public Radio<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/quebecvotes2007\/\">results<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/quebecvotes2007\/story\/2007\/03\/26\/qv-liberals20070326.html\">from<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/quebecvotes2007\/story\/2007\/03\/26\/adq-070326.html\">last<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070326.wqueb0326\/BNStory\/National\/home\">night&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070327.wxquebview27\/BNStory\/National\">election<\/a> in Qu\u00c3\u00a9bec. Wow, talk about a shakeup of the political landscape in Qu\u00c3\u00a9bec. Looks like that other <a href=\"http:\/\/paulmartin.ca\/\">Paul Martin<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2007\/03\/27\/quebec-federal.html\">busy today<\/a>, too&#8230; (nice new website, other Paul!)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOh yeah, speaking of politics, I almost forgot to link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2007\/03\/27\/science-toad.html\">this<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No time to write much this week, but here are a few things I would comment on in more detail if I had time: Graham Swift is one of my favourite writers, so it kills me that I&#8217;ve still not gotten around to reading the Light of Day. He also has a new book coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-canadian-politics","category-podcasting","category-worldlit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}