{"id":1631,"date":"2008-01-22T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2008-01-22T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T06:04:00","slug":"tory-times-are-tough-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"Tory Times Are Tough Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The buzz out of Kitchener is that the Liberals may do the honourable thing by not taking advantage of an impending economic slow down. <a href=\"http:\/\/canadianpress.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jAVHXIbLBkQ-VrcENmTwLAvfierQ\">Garth Turner explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">&#8220;I think the most important thing for us is not to just say, &#8216;Oh goody, here&#8217;s an opportunity for us to bring the government down&#8217; when people are feeling most anxious about the future. That might be politically advantageous but it&#8217;s not the right thing for Canada.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree 100%. I think the&#8221;right thing for Canada&#8221; would be to wait until things get bad enough that people are willing to toss Harper over the economy and <em>then <\/em>bring &#8217;em down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The buzz out of Kitchener is that the Liberals may do the honourable thing by not taking advantage of an impending economic slow down. Garth Turner explains: &#8220;I think the most important thing for us is not to just say, &#8216;Oh goody, here&#8217;s an opportunity for us to bring the government down&#8217; when people are [&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-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}