{"id":371,"date":"2009-01-31T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:48","slug":"ignatieff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Ignatieff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I think many of us feel that the recent Canadian budget is seriously flawed and that a coalition government could have worked out well for Canada, I also think that Michael Ignatieff&#8217;s move to support the budget was a savvy one that will better position him to win an election when the time is right. There&#8217;s an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/01\/fashion\/01ignatieff.html?partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">profile of Ignatieff<\/a> in the NY Times today that&#8217;s worth reading. I&#8217;m looking forward to reading his new book this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I think many of us feel that the recent Canadian budget is seriously flawed and that a coalition government could have worked out well for Canada, I also think that Michael Ignatieff&#8217;s move to support the budget was a savvy one that will better position him to win an election when the time is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-politics","category-us-of-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}