{"id":6221,"date":"2010-07-02T01:55:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T05:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=6221"},"modified":"2010-07-02T01:55:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T05:55:51","slug":"anguish-of-an-ordinary-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=6221","title":{"rendered":"Anguish Of An Ordinary Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FHIZ2Jl2vuQ<br \/>\n(Video of an angry shopper stymied by G20 shutdown in Toronto)<\/p>\n<p>I am mad. I am hopping mad.<\/p>\n<p>Why are you closed? Why, why, why!? I want to shop!<\/p>\n<p>Every weekend, I come to Eaton Centre to browse, to shop, to max out my credit cards, just to help out the economy, to fulfill my duty as an ordinary citizen, as a contributor to our financial community. And to spend, spend, spend.<\/p>\n<p>Why did you shut it down, in the name of security? \u00a0Why did you shutdown the downtown core, to intimidate us shoppers, by the presence of such a horrendous police force?<\/p>\n<p>Why couldn\u2019t you keep all the guests up in Muskoka, in the safe haven of our cottage country? Look at the G8 gatherings, not a hint of violence; no protest, no riots. Then why bring the G20 back to Toronto? Were they not classy enough for the resort environment? Once when you set up shop with the enclosing wire fences, and a large police force, they acted as magnet and wild fire that attracted all the media-crazed bugs and thugs. All variety of protests zoomed into the downtown core, convenient and within walking distance. Ka-boom, all madness got loose. Was that what you forsee or hope for, with such outcome, to justify the need for more than a billion bucks to be blown away on one weekend.? If not, then why the government already denied to compensate businesses any damage done, way before they actually happened?\u00a0 That\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n<p>You can close and board-up parliament whenever you want, but, please do not, I repeat, do not close up our headquarters of consumerism, deprive us of our great shopping experience and entertainment, \u00a0ever again.<\/p>\n<p>Why are you closed? Why, why, why!? I want to shop!<\/p>\n<p>I am mad. I am hopping mad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses) http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FHIZ2Jl2vuQ (Video of an angry shopper stymied by G20 shutdown in Toronto) I am mad. I am hopping mad. Why are you closed? Why, why, why!? I want to shop! Every weekend, I come to Eaton Centre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=6221\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,111],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-6221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-through-rose-coloured-glasses","tag-fb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6221"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6232,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions\/6232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}