{"id":2571,"date":"2010-02-02T07:10:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T11:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2010-02-02T08:16:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:16:25","slug":"not-the-first-certainly-not-the-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/not-the-first-certainly-not-the-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the first, certainly not the last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Williams, premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, will be having heart surgery later this week. This is a bit of a surprise to most, as he&#8217;s known to be a regular exerciser and hasn&#8217;t missed time for illness recently. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/story.html?id=2510700&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29&#038;utm_content=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Kenyon Wallace&#8217;s report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is to have heart surgery in the United States later this week, a press conference this morning is expected to confirm.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports last night suggested the popular 59-year-old Premier has opted not to remain in his home province or country for the scheduled surgery, opting instead for treatment at a U.S. institution. The exact destination is not known.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that Premier Williams did leave the province this morning and will be undergoing heart surgery later this week,&#8221; said Mr. Williams&#8217; spokeswoman, Elizabeth Matthews, in an email to the Canadian Press.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not the first Canadian politician to elect to get medical care in the United States, and (on past experience) he&#8217;ll certainly not be the last one either. A cynic might note that the leaders don&#8217;t have the same confidence in the Canadian healthcare system that the people do . . . or it might be that politicians see themselves as far too important to have to wait until their turn under our system (where wait times are a quiet shame).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Williams, premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, will be having heart surgery later this week. This is a bit of a surprise to most, as he&#8217;s known to be a regular exerciser and hasn&#8217;t missed time for illness recently. Here&#8217;s Kenyon Wallace&#8217;s report: Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is to have heart surgery in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,66,53],"tags":[480,479,162],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-health-science","category-politics","tag-hypocrisy","tag-newfoundland","tag-socializedmedicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Ft","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}