{"id":19,"date":"2006-02-12T22:57:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T03:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2006-02-12T22:57:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T03:57:13","slug":"diversity-thy-name-is-tory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Thy Name Is Tory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just surfed over to the Phantom Observer&#8217;s site to get the URL for one of the bloggers that showed up at our <a target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=23\">Ottawa Blogfest<\/a> from the other night.<\/p>\n<p>I glanced at the photo and was reading the Phantom&#8217;s post when something struck me.  It may not be the most politically correct thing to note, but still, it is reality and I thought I would mention it here.<\/p>\n<p>Six of us bloggers showed up.  All were Conservatives.  And to throw something in the face of anyone who thinks Tories are nothing but rednecks, I noted the following.<\/p>\n<p>Two of us were visible minorities.  One was a student.  One has French background.  One is Greek in ethnicity and one lives in Ontario but has roots in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>How diverse can you get?  I&#8217;m incredibly pleased to know that there is such diversity among conservative minded people in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just surfed over to the Phantom Observer&#8217;s site to get the URL for one of the bloggers that showed up at our Ottawa Blogfest from the other night. I glanced at the photo and was reading the Phantom&#8217;s post when something struck me. It may not be the most politically correct thing to note, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}