{"id":1922,"date":"2008-09-17T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2008-09-17T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T23:57:00","slug":"green-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"Green Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens released their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/platform\">platform<\/a> today &#8211; smartly trimming down their previous 160 page policy document to a slick 8 pages (including pictures!).<\/p>\n<p>Although I know they&#8217;d disagree, from my view it appears the Greens are trying to stake out the left of the spectrum. While the Dippers have become a lot more populist and mainstream under Layton in a bid to replace the Liberals on the left, the Greens seem to be waving the flag on idealism in a bid to replace the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">NDP<\/span> as the conscience of Canada. The <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">NDP<\/span> of old would have certainly been supportive of environmental taxes and a <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">GST<\/span> hike &#8211; not any more. A lot of the language about pulling out of NAFTA and NATO is also very retro-80s <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">NDP<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens released their platform today &#8211; smartly trimming down their previous 160 page policy document to a slick 8 pages (including pictures!). Although I know they&#8217;d disagree, from my view it appears the Greens are trying to stake out the left of the spectrum. While the Dippers have become a lot more populist and [&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-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","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=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}