{"id":2118,"date":"2008-12-23T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2008-12-23T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T16:24:00","slug":"gone-ice-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2118","title":{"rendered":"Gone Ice Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an eventful year &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/election-08.html\">a federal election<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/history-in-making.html\">a US election<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/alberta-votes-2008-ed-files-election.html\">an Alberta election<\/a>, an <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/alberta-liberals-vote.html\">Alberta Liberal leadership race<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/liberal-leadership-race.html\">federal Liberal leadership race<\/a> (kinda), plus <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/fortnight-to-rememberor-forget.html\">whatever the hell that coalition\/non-confidence insanity was<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back in Calgary for the holidays and have placed a blogging hiatus on myself until early January to allow for some political detox. I have a few &#8220;year end&#8221; posts drafted and scheduled to go up at some point over the next two weeks, but don&#8217;t expect anything else unless something big happens politically.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to take a moment to thank everyone who voted for me in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/finalists\/finalists-and-winners-2008\/\">Canadian Blog Awards<\/a> &#8211; yes, all awards are kind of silly, but I&#8217;m pleased to have taken home the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/15\/best-political-blog\/\">best political blog<\/a>&#8221; trophy, and your votes are much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, thanks for reading. See you in 2009!<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; There&#8217;s some good discussion going on in the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/at-least-now-its-factually-correct-to.html\">Senate <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/26-ways-to-attack-michael-ignatieff.html\">Ignatieff <\/a>threads below, so feel free to keep it going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an eventful year &#8211; a federal election, a US election, an Alberta election, an Alberta Liberal leadership race, a federal Liberal leadership race (kinda), plus whatever the hell that coalition\/non-confidence insanity was&#8230; I&#8217;m back in Calgary for the holidays and have placed a blogging hiatus on myself until early January to allow for [&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-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","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=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}