{"id":1930,"date":"2008-09-23T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2008-09-23T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T22:37:00","slug":"planes-trains-and-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1930","title":{"rendered":"Planes, Trains, and Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth May has been doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/canadianpress.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hFr81pt0W3JJXlaiztXh6SxcZdTA\">cross-country train trip<\/a> this week to drum up Green Party support in small towns. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Being<\/span> a sap for retro-campaigning, I&#8217;ve got to say I really like this idea &#8211; especially for a party trying to grab headlines and a leader trying to position herself as being different than other politicians.<\/p>\n<p>This is something that I even think one of the major parties should look into for future elections as a way to kick off the first week or close out the campaign. Logistically, they&#8217;d need to script things a bit tighter than the Green whistle stop tour which has a certain ad <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">hoc<\/span> feel to it. But it would be a great way to get some media attention and position yourself as being &#8220;in touch with average Canadians&#8221; as you blitz through small town Tim <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Hortons<\/span> from coast to coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth May has been doing a cross-country train trip this week to drum up Green Party support in small towns. Being a sap for retro-campaigning, I&#8217;ve got to say I really like this idea &#8211; especially for a party trying to grab headlines and a leader trying to position herself as being different than other [&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-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","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=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}