{"id":268,"date":"2008-06-19T12:53:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T19:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/?p=268"},"modified":"2008-06-19T12:53:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T19:53:17","slug":"theo-tams-in-canadian-idol-top-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2008\/06\/19\/theo-tams-in-canadian-idol-top-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Theo Tams in Canadian Idol Top 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lethbridgian Theo Tams has made it to the Top 24 of the Canadian Idol 2008 competitions.<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_PargPSV1Fo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lethbridgian Theo Tams has made it to the Top 24 of the Canadian Idol 2008 competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-4k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3975,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2019\/11\/20\/canadian-soldiers-didnt-fight-for-canadian-freedoms\/","url_meta":{"origin":268,"position":0},"title":"Canadian soldiers didn\u2019t fight for Canadian freedoms","author":"Kim Siever","date":"20 November 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The idea that Canadian veterans fought for our freedoms is completely made up.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/poppy-641423_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/poppy-641423_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/poppy-641423_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/poppy-641423_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/poppy-641423_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3916,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2019\/10\/11\/canadian-conservatives-are-a-minority\/","url_meta":{"origin":268,"position":1},"title":"Canadian conservatives are a minority","author":"Kim Siever","date":"11 October 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Canadian voters are overwhelmingly left of centre. 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