{"id":1825,"date":"2008-07-03T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2008-07-03T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T22:23:00","slug":"leather-vest-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"Leather Vest Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SGzimKd55wI\/AAAAAAAAAd4\/zxy4nsNZtTo\/s1600-h\/harper_cowboy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218795213488252674\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SGzimKd55wI\/AAAAAAAAAd4\/zxy4nsNZtTo\/s200\/harper_cowboy.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Calgary Stampede &#8211; when Calgarians take a break from complaining <a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SGzihGFEEMI\/AAAAAAAAAdw\/f4wb9yZPUuM\/s1600-h\/chase.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218795126410973378\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SGzihGFEEMI\/AAAAAAAAAdw\/f4wb9yZPUuM\/s200\/chase.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>that the rest of the country sees them as Wild West hicks and dress up as cowboys for a week &#8211; kicks off this weekend but, alas, I\u2019ll be missing it. I don\u2019t so much mind missing the rodeo, parade, or mini-donuts, but I am sad that I won\u2019t be able to add to my collection of \u201cpoliticians in cowboy hats\u201d pictures.<\/p>\n<p>So for anyone lucky enough to be taking at a Stampede breakfast this <a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SGziCNdAbeI\/AAAAAAAAAdg\/Am7D2pOEZSM\/s1600-h\/bennett.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218794595814501858\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SGziCNdAbeI\/AAAAAAAAAdg\/Am7D2pOEZSM\/s200\/bennett.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>week, I\u2019m putting out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogossary.com\/define\/bleg\/\">bleg<\/a> for you to send me any pictures of politicians in western wear you manage to snap. If I get enough, I\u2019ll be sure to post them all here (either attributed or anonymous &#8211; your call), with the mandatory snarky captions. Bonus marks to anyone who gets a picture of Ed Stelmach or Ralph Klein.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/stampede-round-up.html\">2006 Politicians in Cowboy Hats<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/second-annual-politicians-in-cowboy.html\">2007 Politicians in Cowboy Hats<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SGziHGHNVbI\/AAAAAAAAAdo\/XtWIwucA9do\/s1600-h\/chase.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Stampede &#8211; when Calgarians take a break from complaining that the rest of the country sees them as Wild West hicks and dress up as cowboys for a week &#8211; kicks off this weekend but, alas, I\u2019ll be missing it. I don\u2019t so much mind missing the rodeo, parade, or mini-donuts, but I [&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-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","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=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}