{"id":885,"date":"2008-10-14T16:23:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T23:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=885"},"modified":"2008-10-14T16:36:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T23:36:16","slug":"on-your-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"on your mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do so love my satellite dish and it&#8217;s time-shifting feature.\u00a0 Less than 15 minutes before the polls close out east &#8211; although, I believe they&#8217;re already closed in Newfoundland &#8211; and I&#8217;ll soon be able to watch all the punditry and polling goodies I can handle.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, I&#8217;m listening to George Stroumboulopoulos give a run down of his opinions of the 37 day election campaign.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I&#8217;m willingly watching CBC with no Dr. Who or Torchwood in sight. Peter Mansbridge and company will soon be handed the reigns.<\/p>\n<p>CTV and Global don&#8217;t seem to be running coverage until 7pm.\u00a0 I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised by this.\u00a0 The Maritimes are often ignored by the &#8220;East&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to get my <em>popcorn and beer <\/em>ready.\u00a0 Oh, and to call my mom.<\/p>\n<p>Happy election viewing everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upperdate:<\/strong> *GRRRR*\u00a0 Elections coverage is blacked out.\u00a0 At exactly 5:30pm my TV went grey and a nice little message re: Elections Canada forbidding elections coverage in areas where polls aren&#8217;t closed is now being displayed on screen.\u00a0 Someone please explain to me how Elections Canada can declare vote swapping\/sharing (strategic voting by proxy) legal but learning of the results early is not.\u00a0 Bah!\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like this information isn&#8217;t going to be available on the Internet through non-Canadian housed blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do so love my satellite dish and it&#8217;s time-shifting feature.\u00a0 Less than 15 minutes before the polls close out east &#8211; although, I believe they&#8217;re already closed in Newfoundland &#8211; and I&#8217;ll soon be able to watch all the punditry and polling goodies I can handle. At the moment, I&#8217;m listening to George Stroumboulopoulos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-save-us-from-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}