{"id":574,"date":"2005-12-19T23:33:29-05:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T04:33:29+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/19\/letter-to-candidates-chapter-2"},"modified":"2006-01-01T15:24:36-05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T20:24:36+00:00","slug":"letter-to-candidates-chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/19\/letter-to-candidates-chapter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to candidates, chapter&nbsp;2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Last Thursday evening I wrote a <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/16\/letter-to-candidates\">letter to my candidates<\/a> asking for their opinions on various issues.  I&#8217;m somewhat surprised to report that I&#8217;ve received <em>no<\/em> responses at all.  Not even an acknowledgement of receipt.  No answer from the incumbent trying to retain his seat; silence from the candidate hoping to rebuild support for his party in southwestern Ontario; nothing from the young representative who should be stumping for any notice at all; and zero from the multi-careered gentleman from the (apparently) single-issue party.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>But hey, I&#8217;m just a guy with a blog&#8230; oh yeah, and a vote.  Should I really be surprised, when reliable sources say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todmaffin.com\/blogs\/tech\/?p=75\"><q>the politicians just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get it yet<\/q><\/a>?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It&#8217;s only been two business days since my letter, so I suppose I should give them all the benefit of the doubt.  I find it a little disheartening, though, that there&#8217;s doubt for which benefit needs to be given.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Thursday evening I wrote a letter to my candidates asking for their opinions on various issues. I&#8217;m somewhat surprised to report that I&#8217;ve received no responses at all. Not even an acknowledgement of receipt. No answer from the incumbent trying to retain his seat; silence from the candidate hoping to rebuild support for his&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,20,25,21,26,24],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}