{"id":1378,"date":"2007-04-30T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2007-04-30T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T00:04:00","slug":"by-now-weve-got-to-get-used-to-ralphisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"&quot;By now, we&#8217;ve got to get used to Ralphisms&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought the guy was gone for good, Ralph Klein in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/news\/politics\/story.html?id=800fabb7-0973-4955-ba52-17ecf9ece6e1&#038;k=44526\">back in the news<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">However, Klein said Sunday that people misheard him during his heavily improvised three-minute speech. He had actually been speaking about a protected parks area near Rocky Mountain House from which a documentary film crew was banned. As premier, he intervened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I recall my executive assistant coming to me and saying, &#8216;You know, <strong>the natives have been drinking there for years and years there<\/strong>, why can&#8217;t we shoot a film there,'&#8221; he told the crowd, according a recording by CHUM-TV.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ralph, however, has come up with a very reasonable defense:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Former premier Ralph Klein firmly denied reports he slurred natives at an awards banquet this weekend, insisting he had referred to people drinking water, not alcohol.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Ahhh<\/span>&#8230;that explains it.<\/p>\n<p>He also took the opportunity to explain his famous <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">BSE<\/span> flap when he said ranchers should &#8220;shoot, shovel and shut up&#8221;, by saying he meant &#8220;ranchers should shoot&#8230;movies. Near where those natives drink&#8230;water.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought the guy was gone for good, Ralph Klein in back in the news: However, Klein said Sunday that people misheard him during his heavily improvised three-minute speech. He had actually been speaking about a protected parks area near Rocky Mountain House from which a documentary film crew was banned. As premier, [&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-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","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=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}