{"id":1623,"date":"2008-09-25T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T03:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2008-09-25T23:30:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T03:30:05","slug":"i-like-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/25\/i-like-art\/","title":{"rendered":"I like Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I also the The Arts. Of course I&#8217;m an elitist liberal scum, but this just gives me one more reason to despise Stephen Harper. I could rant, but let&#8217;s let George at BookNinja <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/?p=4531\">do it instead<\/a>, since he&#8217;s so good at it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, he tried to set up arts and culture producers, from dance companies to music groups to writers to painters, as whining, free-loading lefties taking the Canadian taxpayer for a ride. Then he tried to create a series of bogeymen, fringe artists whose art might scare some people into thinking Canada was being misrepresented on the world stage. And now he\u2019s come right out and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/FederalElection\/article\/504811\">said that \u201cordinary Canadians\u201d aren\u2019t interested in the arts<\/a>, calling the entire nigh $50billion dollar a year industry a \u201cniche interest\u201d. How insulting. Since when did Canadians let someone like Harper define what \u201cordinary\u201d is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More righteous rage and suggestions at the link.<\/p>\n<p>I expect a Harper government to continue to gut the Arts, to do away with or further commercialize the CBC, and to pull a whole bunch more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickmercer.com\/blog\/index.cfm\/2008\/3\/4\/From-the-Desk-of-Stephen-Harper\">turn-the-arts-into-propaganda-machine stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My certainty that he&#8217;s going to win leaves me disappointed and disgusted with my countrymen, and with a plan to lay in a large supply of alcohol to numb the pain come election day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I also the The Arts. Of course I&#8217;m an elitist liberal scum, but this just gives me one more reason to despise Stephen Harper. I could rant, but let&#8217;s let George at BookNinja do it instead, since he&#8217;s so good at it: First, he tried to set up arts and culture producers, from dance companies to music groups to writers&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/25\/i-like-art\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[82,321,133],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-explodes","category-political","tag-art","tag-fuck-you-stephen-harper","tag-politics","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-qb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}