{"id":1310,"date":"2007-03-06T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2007-03-06T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T20:39:00","slug":"the-world-according-to-garth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"The World According to Garth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember thinking to myself over the weekend, &#8220;<em>gosh, it&#8217;s been a few days since Garth Turner has said anything&#8221;<\/em>. Well, luckily, this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehilltimes.ca\/\">Hill Times <\/a>gave all the Garth junkies out there their Garthy fix. On the <em>front page<\/em>, is a story about Garth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehilltimes.ca\/html\/index.php\">predicting the next election<\/a> (May 28<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">th<\/span>). Inside, they also have a recap of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/reginaleaderpost\/news\/canada_world\/story.html?id=32b916a0-5d02-4eea-a443-03d2e2c03c2a\">great office move saga<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">In protest [to the office move], Mr. Turner <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">referred<\/span> to Mr.Hill as &#8220;the evil Jay Hill&#8221; four times on his website and again in an <em>Ottawa Citizen <\/em>article last week.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I must say, &#8220;the evil Jay Hill&#8221; does have a nice ring to it, even if it is a little churlish. Luckily, Garth comes up with a much more poetic description of the evil Jay Hill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">&#8220;Isn&#8217;t Jay Hill&#8230;merely another blinkered conservative <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">neo<\/span>-con bully in a Hugo Boss suit who&#8217;d rather play chess with offices rather than, say, do something constructive?&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been harsh on Garth in the past but I do have to tip my hat to him on that one. The man can write a great insult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember thinking to myself over the weekend, &#8220;gosh, it&#8217;s been a few days since Garth Turner has said anything&#8221;. Well, luckily, this week&#8217;s Hill Times gave all the Garth junkies out there their Garthy fix. On the front page, is a story about Garth predicting the next election (May 28th). Inside, they also have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}