{"id":1676,"date":"2008-02-25T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2008-02-25T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T02:50:00","slug":"how-to-lose-an-issue-in-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"How to Lose an Issue in 10 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan is off the table as an election issue, as the Liberals and Tories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080225.wafghandebate0225\/BNStory\/National\/home\">agree on a compromise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably a good example of how a minority government can work but it&#8217;s probably a better example of how to skillfully make a hot button issue <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">disappear<\/span>. As for who the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">skillful<\/span> one was in all of this, I tend to lean Harper&#8217;s way, but I guess it all depends on who you thought would benefit from an election focused on Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan is off the table as an election issue, as the Liberals and Tories agree on a compromise. This is probably a good example of how a minority government can work but it&#8217;s probably a better example of how to skillfully make a hot button issue disappear. As for who the skillful one was in [&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-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","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=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}