{"id":149,"date":"2007-10-10T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2007-10-10T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T04:52:00","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/happy-birthday-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the clock clicked over to 12:00 AM, October 11, I found myself sitting in front of the TV, watching the final numbers roll in from the Ontario election. Probably the worst birthday present I&#8217;ve received in my life.<br \/><span class=\"fullpost\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td>Liberals<\/td>\n<td>71 seats<\/td>\n<td>42.12% popular vote<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PC<\/td>\n<td>26 seats<\/td>\n<td>31.55% popular vote<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>NDP<\/td>\n<td>10 seats<\/td>\n<td>16.95% popular vote<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Green<\/td>\n<td>0 seats<\/td>\n<td>8.05% popular vote<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Other<\/td>\n<td>0 seats<\/td>\n<td>1.34% popular vote<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>So, I sat in the living room, singing a song and hugging my dogs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Happy Birthday to me<br \/>Happy Birthday to me<br \/>Happy Birthday, dear pit bull (dog) owner<br \/>Happy Birthday to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know it sounds like a pity party, but it really only lasted for half an hour. I&#8217;m more determined than ever to get rid of this government, succeed in court, and increase public awareness. I believe we&#8217;re going to have to make significant strides in all three areas in order to be successful.<\/p>\n<p>This is not just an Ontario fight, it&#8217;s Canadian, it&#8217;s North American, it&#8217;s worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>So, on with the fight.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of Winston Churchill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never \u2014- in nothing, great or small, large or petty \u2014- never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the clock clicked over to 12:00 AM, October 11, I found myself sitting in front of the TV, watching the final numbers roll in from the Ontario election. Probably the worst birthday present I&#8217;ve received in my life.&nbsp; Liberals 71 seats 42.12% popular vote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","category-politics","category-solutions-bad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}