{"id":696881,"date":"2026-05-03T14:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=696881"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:29:36","slug":"heard-this-joke-yesterday-on-a-podcast-what-do-north-korea-china-russia-and-canada-all-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=696881","title":{"rendered":"Heard this joke yesterday on a Podcast &#8212; What do North Korea, China, Russia and Canada all have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>They are all currently being run by unelected majority governments.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>It&#8217;s funny\/sad but not completely accurate &#8212;\u00a0 apparently the Russian constitution demands regular elections &#8212; as does Canada&#8217;s but the results apparently don&#8217;t mean anything as selected Members of Parliament were recently incentivized to leave &#8220;the parties that they represented when voted for by citizens&#8221; to create an unelected Liberal Majority (So far &#8211; only those that chose NOT to accept incentives offered have been\u00a0 willing to discuss terms)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are all currently being run by unelected majority governments. &nbsp; It&#8217;s funny\/sad but not completely accurate &#8212;\u00a0 apparently the Russian constitution demands regular elections &#8212; as does Canada&#8217;s but the results apparently don&#8217;t mean anything as selected Members of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=696881\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696883,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696881\/revisions\/696883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}