{"id":86665,"date":"2017-01-25T17:48:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=86665"},"modified":"2017-01-25T17:48:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:48:23","slug":"quebec-politician-pierre-paradis-suffers-concussion-after-falling-off-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/25\/quebec-politician-pierre-paradis-suffers-concussion-after-falling-off-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec politician Pierre Paradis suffers concussion after falling off horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86666\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1402072_797955476898781_484686225_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86666\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1402072_797955476898781_484686225_o.jpg\" alt=\"Quebec Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis (Pictured) is stepping away from his cabinet duties temporarily after falling off a horse and suffering a concussion. (Photo: Pierre Paradis - Brome Missisquoi\/ Facebook)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1402072_797955476898781_484686225_o.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1402072_797955476898781_484686225_o-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1402072_797955476898781_484686225_o-768x329.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quebec Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis (Pictured) is stepping away from his cabinet duties temporarily after falling off a horse and suffering a concussion. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/Pierre-Paradis-Brome-Missisquoi-\">Pierre Paradis &#8211; Brome Missisquoi\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Quebec Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis is stepping away from his cabinet duties temporarily after falling off a horse and suffering a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>He will be replaced by Transport Minister Laurent Lessard.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Paradis says the accident occurred earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Laurence Lemieux described the concussion as mild and said he suffered no fracture.<\/p>\n<p>She did not know how long Paradis will be absent but said he is expected to see his doctor again on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old Paradis has represented the riding of Brome-Missisquoi since 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis is stepping away from his cabinet duties temporarily after falling off a horse and suffering &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[1345,5955,14248],"class_list":["post-86665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-accident","tag-concussion","tag-quebec-agriculture-minister-pierre-paradis","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}