{"id":2068,"date":"2008-12-02T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2008-12-02T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T00:01:00","slug":"we-interrupt-the-implosion-of-democracy-to-bring-you-this-very-important-public-service-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"We Interrupt the Implosion of Democracy to Bring you this Very Important Public Service Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/\">Canadian blog awards<\/a> has arrived. And since I know you&#8217;ve all appreciated my spot-on analysis over the past year (&#8220;<em>Harper&#8217;s move to remove public subsidies is brilliant<\/em>!&#8221;), please take a moment to vote for this blog in the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/vote-2008\/best-political-blog\/\">best political blog category<\/a>&#8220;, or any of the other ones I&#8217;ve been nominated for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/vote-2008\/best-political-blog\/\">Best Political Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/vote-2008\/best-blog-post\/\">Best Blog Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/vote-2008\/best-blog-post-series\/\">Best Blog Post Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would also encourage everyone to cast their ballot for <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">AGRDT<\/span> as <a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/vote-2008\/best-new-blog\/\">best new blog<\/a>, James Bow for <a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/vote-2008\/best-non-partisan-blog\/\">best non-partisan blog<\/a>, and either member of the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Macleans<\/span> dynamic duo of political <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">geekdom<\/span> for <a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/vote-2008\/best-punditprofessional-commentator-blog\/\">best pundit blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final round of the Canadian blog awards has arrived. And since I know you&#8217;ve all appreciated my spot-on analysis over the past year (&#8220;Harper&#8217;s move to remove public subsidies is brilliant!&#8221;), please take a moment to vote for this blog in the &#8220;best political blog category&#8220;, or any of the other ones I&#8217;ve been [&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\/2068"}],"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=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}