{"id":964,"date":"2016-01-16T15:18:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T20:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/?p=964"},"modified":"2016-01-24T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T19:44:21","slug":"a-new-federal-political-party-for-us-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"A new federal political party for us nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that there are many people in Canada who feel as I do, that the existing governmental structures are serving the needs of ordinary Canadians less and less.<\/p>\n<p>My proposal is that we create a new federal political party, and invite individuals like Marc Garneau and Andrew Coyne to take up its flag. It could be called the PNG &#8211; the Party of Nerds and Geeks; another possibility for a name is GNP &#8211; the Geeks and Nerds Party. Us geeks and nerds will appreciate the word play. But much more importantly, one can hope that engineers, software types, entrepreneurs, blue-collar workers, construction tradespeople, small business owners, and many other Canadians who are fed up with the existing federal political parties that behave as if they&#8217;re\u00a0more interested in pandering to voters to get elected or re-elected than in governing the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that there are many people in Canada who feel as I do, that the existing governmental structures are serving the needs of ordinary Canadians less and less. My proposal is that we create a new federal political party, and invite individuals like Marc Garneau and Andrew Coyne to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}