{"id":1973,"date":"2015-10-23T12:20:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2015-10-23T12:20:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:20:52","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/23\/hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Bharata_Natyam_Performance_DS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1974\" src=\"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Bharata_Natyam_Performance_DS.jpg\" alt=\"Bharata_Natyam_Performance_DS\" width=\"330\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Bharata_Natyam_Performance_DS.jpg 330w, https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Bharata_Natyam_Performance_DS-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are always turning points in political campaigns. They are usually unexpected and unplanned but, sometimes, it is because a political party makes incredible mistakes. Not big mistakes but a series of small mistakes that accumulate. The kind of mistakes that, while small, as they accumulate, reveal aspects of an individual politician or a party that makes people revolted or fearful. The law of unexpected consequences always lies coiled, ready to strike.<\/p>\n<p>One of these was the niqab. It was a dead cat strategy. Get people talking about the niqab and how it was a threat to Canadians. The implications were that the women wearing it were likely to be also wearing a belt of explosives and were going to blow up people at a Blue Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are always turning points in political campaigns. They are usually unexpected and unplanned but, sometimes, it is because a political party makes incredible mistakes. Not big mistakes but a series of small mistakes that accumulate. The kind of mistakes that, while small, as they accumulate, reveal aspects of an individual politician or a party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1879,1870,1874,1868,1878,1881,1873,1875,1872,1880,1869,1876,1871,1877,1867],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2015-election","tag-bhangra","tag-chris-alexander","tag-east-indian","tag-hatred","tag-india-canadian-association-of-montreal","tag-indian-independence-day","tag-jason-kenney","tag-kurta","tag-montreal","tag-niqab","tag-prejudice","tag-punjabi","tag-racism","tag-trudeau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}