{"id":1812,"date":"2008-06-18T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2008-06-18T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T23:55:00","slug":"fortis-et-liber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"fortis et liber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SFlr82T2-BI\/AAAAAAAAAdA\/MOxgL429Jec\/s1600-h\/albertaplate.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213316736773191698\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SFlr82T2-BI\/AAAAAAAAAdA\/MOxgL429Jec\/s320\/albertaplate.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<div>Ed <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Stelmach<\/span>\u2019s ambitious agenda of change (that works for Albertans!) has finally produced some tangible results, with this week\u2019s announcement that Alberta will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/edmontonjournal\/news\/story.html?id=80c751a2-27a8-47e0-9da7-5f7826d95739\">changing it\u2019s license plate logo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So the wild rose is out, and will be replaced by oily the splotch. No, just kidding \u2013 but that would have been fun, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">wouldn<\/span>\u2019t it? Instead \u201c<em>strong a free<\/em>\u201d will now don license plates, and the rocky mountains will replace the wild rose as the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Even though my choice of \u201c<em>Alberta: Go ahead, make my day<\/em>\u201d <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">didn<\/span>\u2019t win, I can live with \u201c<em>strong and free<\/em>\u201d. Some are criticizing it as being \u201ctoo American\u201d but, well, the thing is a quote from the Canadian national anthem.<\/div>\n<div>So well done Ed &#8211; I salute you! I can only hope you will soon right the grave injustice that occured when rough fescue was named the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/ab\/laws\/sta\/e-6\/20030722\/whole.html\">official grass of Alberta<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><em>hat tip &#8211; <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/straightouttaedmonton.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/mountains-over-roses.html\"><em>straight outta Edmonton<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Stelmach\u2019s ambitious agenda of change (that works for Albertans!) has finally produced some tangible results, with this week\u2019s announcement that Alberta will be changing it\u2019s license plate logo. So the wild rose is out, and will be replaced by oily the splotch. No, just kidding \u2013 but that would have been fun, wouldn\u2019t it? [&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-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","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=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}