{"id":31326,"date":"2025-10-27T18:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31326"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:55:57","slug":"2-minutes-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31326","title":{"rendered":"2 minutes of silence&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-0a54088007690a1a629af34a99d9042a wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#04619f\">Court Painter directed his video crew to venture into the wilds of Ottawa to capture a politician\u00a0<strong>silent<\/strong>. He succeeded with the Leader of the Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, in what is regarded as a rare\u2014perhaps unprecedented\u2014glimpse of this particular politician in a state of silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-d930c2235b9df7d45ddf27e7b6ac430e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#cc0053\"><em>Please note: No cheating by adding a soundtrack over the cinematic tranquility. Simply carve out two minutes of your cacophonous life for a two-minute moment of silent viewing of the Great Dominion\u2019s loudest-mouthed politician&#8230;silenced !<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-62771618e7ebfc1231092905b3f6492b wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0c1963\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2 minutes of silence\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/awfjCTAOU34?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/silent-PP.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/silent-PP.png 700w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/silent-PP-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/silent-PP-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-brown-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-9b0ee029beb847fa6024c17026f9378f wp-block-paragraph\">PP seen biting his lip silently<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Court-Painter-2-minutes-silence.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Court-Painter-2-minutes-silence.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Court-Painter-2-minutes-silence-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Court-Painter-2-minutes-silence-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-brown-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-0f17136c4a03635f3e2c55800b4a8ae4 wp-block-paragraph\">Court Painter seen observing 2 minutes of PP&#8217;s silence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court Painter directed his video crew to venture into the wilds of Ottawa to capture a politician\u00a0silent. He succeeded with the Leader of the Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, in what is regarded as a rare\u2014perhaps unprecedented\u2014glimpse of this particular politician in a state of silence. Please note: No cheating by adding a soundtrack over the cinematic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31326\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2 minutes of silence&#8230;&#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-31326","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\/31326","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=31326"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31335,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31326\/revisions\/31335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}