{"id":2015,"date":"2016-12-26T03:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T03:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2016-12-26T03:47:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T03:47:51","slug":"only-important-question-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=2015","title":{"rendered":"Only Important Question of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal&#8230;. hockey&#8230;. the trading of P.K. Subban from the Montreal Canadians, arguably home of the supreme \u00a0heritage team of the NHL; to the Nashville Predators, home of the Grand Ole Opry&#8230;. is less a business transaction than a cacophony of issues involving language, race, media, franchise loyalty and wounded pride. Within moments of the announcement that Subban would be leaving the city, the social media-fuelled consensus was that the Montreal Canadiens management had performed yet another monumental cock-up. \u00a0(edited MacLeans source )<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2021 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/subban-1.jpg\" alt=\"subban\" width=\"753\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/subban-1.jpg 753w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/subban-1-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2014 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Court-Painter-Why-Subban.jpg\" alt=\"court-painter-why-subban\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Court-Painter-Why-Subban.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Court-Painter-Why-Subban-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Court-Painter-Why-Subban-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal&#8230;. hockey&#8230;. the trading of P.K. Subban from the Montreal Canadians, arguably home of the supreme \u00a0heritage team of the NHL; to the Nashville Predators, home of the Grand Ole Opry&#8230;. is less a business transaction than a cacophony of issues involving language, race, media, franchise loyalty and wounded pride. Within moments of the announcement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=2015\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Only Important Question of 2016&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}