{"id":1880,"date":"2008-08-28T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2008-08-28T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T12:38:00","slug":"parliamentary-death-watch-thursday-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Death Watch: Thursday Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recap of election speculation from the past few days:<\/p>\n<p>-The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080826.welection27\/BNStory\/National\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">GG<\/span> has been grounded<\/a> and will not be going to Beijing for the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Paralympics<\/span>. Sure, sure, everyone <em>assumes<\/em> this is so Harper can call an election but, really, isn&#8217;t it just part of his greater ploy to destroy our relationship with China?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080827.welectionwhy0827\/BNStory\/National\/home\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Harpers<\/span> aims to crush Liberals<\/a>. Well, duh. Isn&#8217;t that the point? I actually agree with Flanagan&#8217;s theory completely, however I&#8217;m not sure how a September 5<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">th<\/span> election call facilitates crushing the Liberals better than a September 15<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">th<\/span> one would? But, yeah, Flanagan is right &#8211; Harper wants to crush the Liberals and, given the fundraising gap between the two, he&#8217;s en route to doing that.<\/p>\n<p>-Oh, and while the Guelph by election will soon be irrelevant, this is a pretty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpmurray-research.com\/electoral-atlas\/Guelph_Sample.pdf\">funky political map of the riding<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recap of election speculation from the past few days: -The GG has been grounded and will not be going to Beijing for the Paralympics. Sure, sure, everyone assumes this is so Harper can call an election but, really, isn&#8217;t it just part of his greater ploy to destroy our relationship with China? &#8211;Harpers aims [&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-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","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=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}