{"id":1439,"date":"2007-06-28T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2007-06-28T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T18:16:00","slug":"ill-take-that-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Take that Bet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">KINGSTON, OTTAWA &#8212; A defiant Gordon O&#8217;Connor said yesterday he has no intention of quitting as Defence Minister, and warned his critics not to assume he is about to turfed from the portfolio in a widely expected cabinet shuffle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can assure you of one thing: I&#8217;m not retiring and I&#8217;m not resigning,&#8221; Mr. O&#8217;Connor told reporters at a military conference in Kingston. &#8220;And if you want to run a pool, go ahead. You&#8217;re going to lose.&#8221;<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll put 20$ down on August 10th in the pool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, OTTAWA &#8212; A defiant Gordon O&#8217;Connor said yesterday he has no intention of quitting as Defence Minister, and warned his critics not to assume he is about to turfed from the portfolio in a widely expected cabinet shuffle. &#8220;I can assure you of one thing: I&#8217;m not retiring and I&#8217;m not resigning,&#8221; Mr. O&#8217;Connor [&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-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","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=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}