{"id":1689,"date":"2008-03-04T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2008-03-04T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T05:59:00","slug":"alberta-votes-2008-the-ed-files-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Votes 2008: The Ed-Files Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. OK, it was just the worst of times. Once the dust settled, Ed <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Stelmach<\/span> had won <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/27th_Alberta_general_election\">a mind-boggling 72 seats<\/a>, silencing his critics inside and outside the party. Here are the highlights of this <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">blog&#8217;s<\/span> election coverage &#8211; a campaign which, despite the result, I <em>really<\/em> had a good time blogging about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/alberta-votes-2008.html\">Alberta Votes Preview<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/this-week-in-alberta-politics-week-1900.html\">Week 1 in Review<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/democracy-derailed.html\">Returning Officer Scandal<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/this-week-in-alberta-politics-week-1901.html\">Week 2 in Review<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/rotten-tories.html\">Rotten Tories.ca<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/wild-west-shoot-out.html\">Debate Live Blogging<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/this-week-in-alberta-politics-week-1902.html\">Week 3 in Review<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/this-week-in-alberta-politics-week-1903.html\">Week 4 in Review<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/lot-has-changed-in-37-years.html\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">AYL<\/span> ad campaign<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/alberta-election-predictions.html\">My Predictions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/dear-alberta.html\">Election Night Reaction <\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/where-do-we-go-from-here.html\">Where do we go from here?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NW0Wp9lZKoI\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NW0Wp9lZKoI\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. OK, it was just the worst of times. Once the dust settled, Ed Stelmach had won a mind-boggling 72 seats, silencing his critics inside and outside the party. Here are the highlights of this blog&#8217;s election coverage &#8211; a campaign which, despite the [&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":[71,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689"}],"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=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}