{"id":1954,"date":"2008-10-04T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2008-10-04T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T17:40:00","slug":"before-they-were-fringe-party-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"Before They Were Fringe Party Leaders&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone (like myself) surprised by Elizabeth May&#8217;s strong debate performance, we should have seen it coming. Here&#8217;s a clip of a a 23 year old May debating a forestry official.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cI0N_2urq_E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cI0N_2urq_E&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>hat tip &#8211; CM<\/p>\n<p>In other Green Party news, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.macleans.ca\/2008\/10\/03\/location-location-location\/\">Elizabeth May has announced<\/a> she will be campaigning in <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/better-know-riding.html\">Central Nova<\/a> from now until Election Day &#8211; smart move on her part&#8230;the focus for them needs to be to win a seat and, unless they get a lucky vote split in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electionprediction.org\/2007_fed\/riding\/59029.php\">Vancouver Centre<\/a>, May remains their best hope (albeit still a faint hope, given her terrible decision to take on <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">MacKay<\/span>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone (like myself) surprised by Elizabeth May&#8217;s strong debate performance, we should have seen it coming. Here&#8217;s a clip of a a 23 year old May debating a forestry official. hat tip &#8211; CM In other Green Party news, Elizabeth May has announced she will be campaigning in Central Nova from now until Election [&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-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","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=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}