{"id":1417,"date":"2007-06-10T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2007-06-10T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T03:32:00","slug":"when-harry-met-cherie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"When Harry Met Cherie"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got back from a weekend in Drumheller<\/span>, helping out on the by election campaign there. Between that, Bronco versus Morton<\/a>, Elbow by election mania<\/a>, Paul Jackson’s idiocies<\/a>, Gordon O’Connor<\/a>, and the Ontario election<\/a>, there’s a lot to blog about. But it will all have to wait because of the news story that has gripped Calgary and, dare I say it, the world<\/em>, over the past few days. I am, of course, referring to Prince Harry’s visit to Cowboys last week and the fairy tale romance that has resulted from it.<\/p>\n

To recap, for those who haven’t been following this captivating story, Prince Harry paid a visit to a local bar in Calgary and flirted with a waitress. I know when I recap it, it sounds trivial so I’ll let the professional journalists <\/a>weigh in on it:<\/p>\n

“As the night went on, the soldier who is third in line to the throne – and the server – who was once in line for the title of Canada’s hottest bartender – spent the small hours chatting.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Tale as old as time…<\/p>\n

The Herald also provides some other important information:<\/p>\n

-Cherie’s favourite body part is her tummy.
-she “plans to be a playboy bunny or Playmate in 3 or 4 years”. [ed note: try 3 or 4 weeks <\/em>after this…]
-the owner of Cowboys think Cherie would look good on the one dollar bill.<\/p>\n

And that’s just Saturday’s story. Today’s Herald has two<\/a><\/em> stories<\/a> on the Prince and the various rumours the Herald has started about him. The Sun shows their usual class <\/a>on the front page seen below. And even the Globe <\/a>and…well…everyone else<\/em> <\/a>have jumped on the Harry and Cherie bandwagon.<\/p>\n

While I’ve always been opposed to the Monarchy, I do think I would reconsider my stance if we could start our own Canadian line of royalty, with Harry as king and Cherie as his Queen. This would be a good compromise between those who want a Canadian head of state and those who believe our head of state should be from a completely different country few Canadians have any emotional association with.<\/p>\n

Anyways, since using “Prince Harry”, “Playboy playmate”, and “hottest bartender”, are gold for my google<\/span> search keywords, I intend to follow this romantic fairy tale quite thoroughly over the coming days<\/strike> years.<\/p>\n

Monday Morning Update:<\/em><\/strong> The news story hits Day 5, with another front page Herald story<\/a>. The Globe talks to a historian<\/a>. And the Sun reports that Cherie is disappointed<\/span> Harry didn’t show <\/a>for a date with her (after she sold an exclusivity deal with a British tabloid).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got back from a weekend in Drumheller, helping out on the by election campaign there. Between that, Bronco versus Morton, Elbow by election mania, Paul Jackson’s idiocies, Gordon O’Connor, and the Ontario election, there’s a lot to blog about. But it will all have to wait because of the news story that has […]<\/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-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","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=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}