{"id":769,"date":"2007-02-10T06:45:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T11:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2007-02-10T06:45:25","modified_gmt":"2007-02-10T11:45:25","slug":"whats-wrong-with-this-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s Wrong With This Picture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image770\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/chateaulaurier.jpg\" alt=\"Chateau Laurier\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/ottawacitizen\/news\/story.html?id=858699f1-c4eb-40b8-b723-f34c47797d14&#038;k=63345\" target=\"_blank\">headline<\/a> reads&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Big-city mayors seek common solutions<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The the article goes on to say&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mayors from 22 big cities across Canada met Friday at the Chateau Laurier Hotel to discuss how best to handle the problems facing Canadian cities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now for those of you living in the 21 big cities that are NOT Ottawa, you may not pick this out, but for those of us who live in Ottawa, noticing that they want a &#8220;common&#8221; solution while staying at the ritziest hotel in Ottawa seems a bit odd.<\/p>\n<p>Just to give you an idea, the Chateau Laurier is a minimum of $189\/night and for an Executive Suite we are talking over $500\/night.  Don&#8217;t bother asking about the Presidential Suite.  Even a politician wouldn&#8217;t have the balls to book that one.<\/p>\n<p>We in Ottawa are also lucky enough to not have to pay the travel expense and I would guess that our Mayor Larry O&#8217;Brien probably woke up in his own bed the day of the meeting and probably went back home to his own bed after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>I hope one of the problems that they discussed was the overspending on travel by city politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline reads&#8230; Big-city mayors seek common solutions The the article goes on to say&#8230; Mayors from 22 big cities across Canada met Friday at the Chateau Laurier Hotel to discuss how best to handle the problems facing Canadian cities. Now for those of you living in the 21 big cities that are NOT Ottawa, [&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":[17,44,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedia-screwedica","category-officiallyscrewed","category-politics-municipal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","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=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}