{"id":12232,"date":"2023-11-06T09:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12232"},"modified":"2023-11-06T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:39:58","slug":"condemned-to-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12232","title":{"rendered":"Condemned to freeze?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at this headline on CTV News this morning, you might have been wondering if our esteemed politicians have finally decided that they&#8217;ve had enough of us, this winter it&#8217;s time for the unwashed masses to freeze to death. No more home heating for you!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12233\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/home-heating.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/home-heating.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/home-heating-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately that is not what the news was about. What the headline should have said was, &#8220;Calls for all home heating <strong>tax<\/strong> to be suspended&#8221;, referring to carbon taxes that apply to fuel, and the decision of the government to suspend this tax on home heating oil but not other home heating fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Guess it was a little too early in the morning for some of CTV&#8217;s technicians this Monday! (Can&#8217;t really blame them. When does their workday begin anyway, 4 AM or something?)<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12232' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at this headline on CTV News this morning, you might have been wondering if our esteemed politicians have finally decided that they&#8217;ve had enough of us, this winter it&#8217;s time for the unwashed masses to freeze to death. No more home heating for you! Fortunately that is not what the news was about. What <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12232' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,44,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-local-ottawa","category-politics","category-59-id","category-44-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12236,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232\/revisions\/12236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}