{"id":1537,"date":"2009-08-26T08:13:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T08:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canitz.org\/?p=207"},"modified":"2009-08-26T08:13:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T08:13:15","slug":"bc-legislative-session-starts-with-a-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essays.rsree.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/26\/bc-legislative-session-starts-with-a-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Legislative Session Starts With A Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, that was not appropriate.\u00a0 This stuff is meaningless to me &#8211; and although graceful hogwash by any other name \u2013 I want our politicians to be accountable to me and everyone else they claim to represent, the people in BC, and not some imaginary metaphysical authority. And all this would in essence be harmless if it wouldn\u2019t be for the fact that elsewhere in the world people are appealing to similar \u201chigher\u201d authorities when they blow themselves up in public while killing hundreds of innocent people. This \u2013 for me- brings the entire concept of a \u201chigher authority\u201d in to question, wouldn\u2019t you say?\u00a0 It is time to grow up as a species and accept full responsibilities for our own actions; there is no one else in charge here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, that was not appropriate.\u00a0 This stuff is meaningless to me &#8211; and although graceful hogwash by any other name \u2013 I want our politicians to be accountable to me and everyone else they claim to represent, the people in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/essays.rsree.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/26\/bc-legislative-session-starts-with-a-prayer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[14,41,171,323,372],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-politics-culture","tag-accountability","tag-bc-legislature","tag-higher-authority","tag-prayer","tag-separation-of-church-and-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essays.rsree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essays.rsree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essays.rsree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essays.rsree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essays.rsree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essays.rsree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essays.rsree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essays.rsree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essays.rsree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}