{"id":1728,"date":"2008-04-03T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2008-04-03T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T23:35:00","slug":"motions-i-would-take-more-seriously-if-proposed-by-anyone-but-pat-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"Motions I would take more seriously if proposed by anyone but Pat Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it\u2019s fitting that a senseless MP wants to leave Canada cent-less. As for his proposal to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/victoriatimescolonist\/story.html?id=6146d7a0-a7e2-4247-badc-a6f4f891aa95&amp;k=46255\">scrap the penny<\/a>, there\u2019s a certain logic to it, and inflation makes the penny\u2019s demise is inevitable. So I think I\u2019m down with this.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I\u2019d love to see an election fought over this burning issue, but that\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m curious what others think? A penny for your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it\u2019s fitting that a senseless MP wants to leave Canada cent-less. As for his proposal to scrap the penny, there\u2019s a certain logic to it, and inflation makes the penny\u2019s demise is inevitable. So I think I\u2019m down with this. As an aside, I\u2019d love to see an election fought over this burning [&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-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","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=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}