{"id":221,"date":"2005-01-06T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=221"},"modified":"2005-01-06T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T21:21:00","slug":"221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Don&#8217;t Let The Door Hit You&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2005 is off to a great start! Given that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/montreal\/montrealgazette\/news\/story.html?id=9368365c-890e-45c1-89be-9887e24ac60a\">Paul Cellucci<\/a> never spoke ill of Canada, I will bite my tongue and not criticize the rodent as he departs. I will also hold off on any criticism of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realitytvworld.com\/index\/articles\/story.php?s=1000982\">Tucker Carlson<\/a> who, along with Crossfire, is exiting stage right. Boy, all I need is for Danny Williams to resign and this will be the best&#8230;week&#8230;ever.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Cellucci, it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoe.ca\/NewsStand\/LondonFreePress\/News\/2005\/01\/06\/810645-sun.html\">Frank McKenna <\/a>will take over as Canada&#8217;s US Ambassador. You&#8217;ll remember that filling this post was very important in December&#8230;of 2003&#8230;when Paul Martin offered it to another leadership contender, John Manley. Now, I don&#8217;t know what Frank McKenna&#8217;s long-term goals are, but I do know that if <em>I <\/em>were considering a run at Liberal Party leadership, I would definitely not want to take this job, given the relatively few potential Liberal delegates living in Washington DC.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Let The Door Hit You&#8230; 2005 is off to a great start! Given that Paul Cellucci never spoke ill of Canada, I will bite my tongue and not criticize the rodent as he departs. I will also hold off on any criticism of Tucker Carlson who, along with Crossfire, is exiting stage right. Boy, [&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\/221"}],"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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}