{"id":9027,"date":"2018-06-07T21:18:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T01:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9027"},"modified":"2018-06-07T21:18:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T01:18:40","slug":"the-centre-cannot-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9027","title":{"rendered":"The centre cannot hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am watching the CBC&#8217;s coverage of the Ontario elections, and I am reminded of the immortal Yeats poem from a century ago:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><em>Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9028\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ontpoll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"851\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ontpoll.jpg 851w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ontpoll-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ontpoll-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, Doug Ford, Donald Trump&#8217;s Ontario mini-me: it looks like the province is yours. May you wield your powers a little more wisely than the orange person south of the border.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9027' 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>I am watching the CBC&#8217;s coverage of the Ontario elections, and I am reminded of the immortal Yeats poem from a century ago: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Well, Doug Ford, Donald Trump&#8217;s Ontario mini-me: it looks like the province is yours. May you wield your <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9027' 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":[22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-politics","category-22-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\/9027","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=9027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9029,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions\/9029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}