{"id":1579,"date":"2007-11-23T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2007-11-23T01:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T06:59:00","slug":"orchard-jumps-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"Orchard Jumps In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Orchard has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbcradio.com\/news\/news\/news_item2.asp?NewsID=5261\">tossed his <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">toque<\/span> <\/a>into what I imagine will be a hotly contested Liberal nomination for Gary <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Merasty&#8217;s<\/span> old seat. Not a huge surprise considering he played a major role in delivering the Liberal leadership to Dion.<\/p>\n<p>While I could restate <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/orchard.html\">my view <\/a>of Orchard, I&#8217;m not in the mood to read through the swarm of angry e-mails from his army of zombie followers this would generate. So, instead, I&#8217;ll bite my tongue on this one.<\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyvoter.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/david-orchard-seeks-liberal-nod.html\">Grumpy Voter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Orchard has tossed his toque into what I imagine will be a hotly contested Liberal nomination for Gary Merasty&#8217;s old seat. Not a huge surprise considering he played a major role in delivering the Liberal leadership to Dion. While I could restate my view of Orchard, I&#8217;m not in the mood to read through [&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-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","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=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}