{"id":1908,"date":"2008-09-11T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2008-09-11T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T17:35:00","slug":"fly-away-little-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1908","title":{"rendered":"Fly Away, Little Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SMlJR2oyS6I\/AAAAAAAAAiQ\/fNNZoMIWauU\/s1600-h\/sparrow.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244803812122839970\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SMlJR2oyS6I\/AAAAAAAAAiQ\/fNNZoMIWauU\/s400\/sparrow.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>After the pooping puffin on Tuesday, it was more mean spirited poop from the Tory campaign today &#8211; this time from a Sparrow (and, again, it indirectly involved Michael <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Ignatieff<\/span>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">MONTREAL \u2014 Senior Conservative Party spokesman Ryan Sparrow has been suspended from the campaign after suggesting the father of a slain soldier who criticized Stephen Harper today was a Liberal.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sparrow sent an email to <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">CTV<\/span><\/span> News today suggesting that Jim Davis, the soldier&#8217;s dad, is a supporter of Liberal incumbent Michael <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Ignatieff<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>He has also been ordered to call Mr. Davis and apologize for his comments.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give the Tories credit &#8211; they&#8217;re a lot better at damage control than they used to be. I guess the &#8220;practice makes perfect&#8221; adage applies here.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> I was going to do a <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">detailed<\/span> post on the over zealous attack nature of the Harper Conservatives tonight but Aaron <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Wheery<\/span> does a better job than I ever could. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.macleans.ca\/2008\/09\/11\/btc-predictable\/\">Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the pooping puffin on Tuesday, it was more mean spirited poop from the Tory campaign today &#8211; this time from a Sparrow (and, again, it indirectly involved Michael Ignatieff): MONTREAL \u2014 Senior Conservative Party spokesman Ryan Sparrow has been suspended from the campaign after suggesting the father of a slain soldier who criticized Stephen [&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-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","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=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}