{"id":1508,"date":"2007-09-11T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2007-09-11T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T05:04:00","slug":"now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the winner, with 53.2% of the vote, is&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108771018131331810\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/RuYALG6HWuI\/AAAAAAAAANo\/IRR3KaQeGQY\/s320\/lougheed.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Peter <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Lougheed<\/span>. In a photo finish, Alberta&#8217;s first PC Premier has been crowned as Canada&#8217;s best Premier, defeating Ontario&#8217;s Premier for much of the 19<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">th<\/span> Century, Oliver <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Mowat<\/span>.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Lougheed<\/span> won a wild battle with Tommy Douglas in the first round, before knocking off Ed <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Schreyer<\/span> and Ernest Manning, en route to his final fight with Oliver <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Mowat<\/span>.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>A thanks to all the other blogs who helped run the individual provincial contests. For a full contest recap, feel free to browse the links below:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/best-premier-show-down.html\">Final<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/final-four.html\">Semi-Finals<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/western-quarters.html\">Western Quarter-Finals<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/quarter-finals-east.html\">Eastern Quarter-Finals<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/finishing-off-quarter-finals.html\">First Round &#8211; 4<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/more-voting.html\">First Round &#8211; 3<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/more-first-round-battles.html\">First Round &#8211; 2<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/in-search-of-gang-of-eight.html\">First Round &#8211; 1<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/search-for-canadas-best-premier-quarter.html\">The contest begins<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the winner, with 53.2% of the vote, is&#8230; Peter Lougheed. In a photo finish, Alberta&#8217;s first PC Premier has been crowned as Canada&#8217;s best Premier, defeating Ontario&#8217;s Premier for much of the 19th Century, Oliver Mowat. Lougheed won a wild battle with Tommy Douglas in the first round, before knocking off Ed Schreyer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508"}],"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=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}