{"id":2020,"date":"2008-11-08T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2008-11-08T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T23:32:00","slug":"the-alberta-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2020","title":{"rendered":"The Alberta Stampede"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">EDMONTON &#8211; Bedecked in a black cowboy hat and a <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">bolo<\/span> tie, Liberal Leader Kevin Taft stood in the legislature rotunda today and announced he would table a motion to make rodeo Alberta&#8217;s official sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alberta doesn&#8217;t even have an official sport. It struck me right away, well, it should be rodeo. What is more Alberta than rodeo?&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m torn on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/edmontonjournal\/news\/story.html?id=363d4b71-e43b-4c01-b100-3dc84a97457e\">this one<\/a>. If the cowboy boot were on the other foot, I would be savagely mocking Ed <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Stelmach<\/span> if he tried something like this (and Taft himself spends a chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/democracy-derailed.html\">his book<\/a> expressing frustration about the great rough <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">fescue<\/span> debate).<\/p>\n<p>But, the ALP needs to blatantly pander to &#8220;real Alberta&#8221; so, what the hell, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">yee<\/span>-haw!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8211; Bedecked in a black cowboy hat and a bolo tie, Liberal Leader Kevin Taft stood in the legislature rotunda today and announced he would table a motion to make rodeo Alberta&#8217;s official sport. &#8220;Alberta doesn&#8217;t even have an official sport. It struck me right away, well, it should be rodeo. What is more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020"}],"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=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}