{"id":345,"date":"2008-10-03T17:37:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T17:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:02:01","slug":"the-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"The debate(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great time last night watching the Canadian leaders debate and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pwmartin\">twittering<\/a> about it in real time. Connected to a few other people twittering about it, and got a few reactions to my posts from some of my Facebook friends. It was interesting, too, to discover that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canadavotes\/campaign2\/ormiston\/2008\/10\/debate_hangover.html\">CBC was monitoring Twitter<\/a> and reported on the reaction of microbloggers on The National news at 11:00.<\/p>\n<p>I only gave in once to the temptation to watch Palin and Biden once. After the Canadian leaders started talking about crime, I briefly switched channels. After hearing Palin say &#8220;nucular&#8221; twice, I was happy to switch back to listening to St\u00c3\u00a9phane Dion, who&#8217;s more articulate in his second language than Palin is in her first.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve yet to go back and watch the full VP debate, but fortunately I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/10\/03\/palin-debate-prep-fl.html\">Palin&#8217;s Debate Flow Chart<\/a> to help interpret her responses. Brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great time last night watching the Canadian leaders debate and twittering about it in real time. Connected to a few other people twittering about it, and got a few reactions to my posts from some of my Facebook friends. It was interesting, too, to discover that CBC was monitoring Twitter and reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-politics","category-media","category-us-of-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}