{"id":8820,"date":"2011-04-14T09:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8820"},"modified":"2011-04-14T10:30:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T14:30:39","slug":"scott-feschuk-is-one-of-those-ethnic-voters-for-the-harper-photo-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/scott-feschuk-is-one-of-those-ethnic-voters-for-the-harper-photo-op\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Feschuk is one of those &#8220;ethnic voters&#8221; for the Harper photo-op"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2011\/04\/14\/say-cheese-with-stephen-harper\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Feschuk<\/a> is delighted to have the opportunity to have his photo taken with the prime minister. He&#8217;s overjoyed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What a moment.<\/p>\n<p>I never thought that I &mdash; a regular, ordinary Canadian &mdash; would get the chance to have my photo taken with the Prime Minister of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>But as luck and crass political calculation would have it, he\u2019s eager to be seen with me! All I have to do is attire myself in such a manner as to flamboyantly display my heritage, thereby rendering me a subhuman prop that Stephen Harper can exploit to woo more of my kind.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I\u2019m in.<\/p>\n<p>As is true of much national folklore garb, it can take quite a while to get into my ethnic costume. Each item has been carefully selected to represent a historic and sacred element relating to my suitably exotic but non-threatening culture.<\/p>\n<p>Join me, won\u2019t you, as I get dressed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I can speak for all of us about our deep gratitude that this blog post is <em>not<\/em> illustrated.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also nice to see that the Conservatives have not yet figured out how to avoid handing their opponents such wonderful opportunities for mockery.<\/p>\n<p>Original tempest-in-an-ethnic-teapot <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/04\/14\/conservative-staffer-calls-for-supporters-to-wear-cultural-attire-to-tory-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. 680News reported yesterday that the staffer who wrote the letter is no longer working for the candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Feschuk is delighted to have the opportunity to have his photo taken with the prime minister. He&#8217;s overjoyed: What a moment. I never thought that I &mdash; a regular, ordinary Canadian &mdash; would get the chance to have my photo taken with the Prime Minister of Canada. But as luck and crass political calculation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[6,57,53],"tags":[156,51,258],"class_list":["post-8820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-politics","tag-fail","tag-pr","tag-stephenharper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2ig","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820","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=8820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8822,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820\/revisions\/8822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}