{"id":677,"date":"2007-01-16T07:28:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T12:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2007-01-16T07:28:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T12:28:41","slug":"obesity-doesnt-care-if-you-can-play-mozart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Obesity Doesn&#039;t Care If You Can Play Mozart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20070115\/fitness_credit_070115\/20070115?hub=Politics\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An online petition to the Government of Canada, signed by more than 35,000 people, says the credit is unfair and places a higher value on fitness than on music or visual and dramatic arts.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Conference of the Arts urged the government to include a variety of arts activities, including music, theatre and visual arts, in the tax credit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think these art critics get the intent of the tax credit, but this raises quite an interesting conundrum.<\/p>\n<p>The arts tend to be championed by the left.  Tax cuts tend to be championed by the right.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmmm&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/biggierection.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/conservatives-strike-back.html\">Clear Conservative Thought<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this article: An online petition to the Government of Canada, signed by more than 35,000 people, says the credit is unfair and places a higher value on fitness than on music or visual and dramatic arts. The Canadian Conference of the Arts urged the government to include a variety of arts activities, including music, [&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":[18,23,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-healthcare","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}