{"id":1742,"date":"2008-04-16T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2008-04-16T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T03:33:00","slug":"blame-the-refs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Blame the Refs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boy, it must be tough to be a Tory. I mean, they have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20060117\/elxn_harper_campaign_060118?s_name=election2006&amp;no_ads=\">Senate, the entire judiciary, the civil service<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20071224\/tories_fundraising_071224?s_name=&amp;no_ads=\">the CBC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrdconservative.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=147\">the media<\/a>, and now, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080416.wtoryraidfolo0416\/BNStory\/National\/home\">officials at Elections Canada<\/a> <em>appointed by Harper<\/em> <em>himself<\/em> all working against them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing they ever won an election in the face of all this adversity! Just imagine the kind of trouble they&#8217;d be in if the official opposition ever joined in opposing them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy, it must be tough to be a Tory. I mean, they have the Senate, the entire judiciary, the civil service, the CBC, the media, and now, the officials at Elections Canada appointed by Harper himself all working against them. It\u2019s amazing they ever won an election in the face of all this adversity! Just [&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-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","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=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}