{"id":80,"date":"2006-01-12T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T20:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/12\/canadian-federal-election\/"},"modified":"2006-01-12T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T20:12:47","slug":"canadian-federal-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/12\/canadian-federal-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Federal Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re up for another federal election in just over a week.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsorgreens.ca\/default.htm\">The Green Party<\/a> has chosen not to put up signs this time.  Not only are signs an eyesore in the community and a big litter maker post-election (and often during) but they are also doing this in an effort to make a responsible spending choice.  What value do signs contribute to people and their environment?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As I was cycling home from campus today I was noticing how warm it is here in Southern Ontario, especially considering it&#8217;s still early January.  I noticed that my neighbour&#8217;s irises are up already and all the lawns are green.  <\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left;\"> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/ga1.js\"> <\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"> <\/script> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Between the many NDP signs around campus and the occasional Conservative party sign, I realized that all the green lawns are really great advertising for the Green Party.  I do have a sign on my lawn after all &#8211; it&#8217;s the green &#8211; uh &#8211; &#8216;ground ivy&#8217; (aka creeping charlie) that covers my front yard.  And I&#8217;ll sleep much much better knowing now that all my neighbours support the Green Party too.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re up for another federal election in just over a week. The Green Party has chosen not to put up signs this time. Not only are signs an eyesore in the community and a big litter maker post-election (and often during) but they are also doing this in an effort to make a responsible spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,17,24,23,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}