{"id":1803,"date":"2008-06-11T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2008-06-11T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T21:29:00","slug":"veepstakes-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1803","title":{"rendered":"VEEPSTAKES &#8217;08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">MSNBC<\/span> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/24672458\">fun online game<\/a>, where they\u2019<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">ve<\/span> bracketed 32 Democrats and Republicans and invited users to vote for a VP nominee. The <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Dems<\/span> have just gotten underway, the Republicans are closing in on their final four.<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me, it\u2019s almost summer time, which means it\u2019s time to start thinking about a bracket game to pass the time on this blog. Three years ago it was <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/and-winner-is.html\">Greatest PM<\/a>, two years back it was <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/stanfield-fumbles-preston-wins.html\">Greatest PM we never had<\/a>, and last summer was <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/now.html\">Best Premier<\/a>. Given some of the mad ballot stuffing we\u2019<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">ve<\/span> seen in recent years, I suspect the theme is going to have to be relatively politically neutral or, at the very least, bracketed in a way to keep it interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has a fun online game, where they\u2019ve bracketed 32 Democrats and Republicans and invited users to vote for a VP nominee. The Dems have just gotten underway, the Republicans are closing in on their final four. Which reminds me, it\u2019s almost summer time, which means it\u2019s time to start thinking about a bracket game [&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-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","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=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}