{"id":2213,"date":"2009-03-31T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2009-03-31T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T12:16:00","slug":"the-homeless-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"The Homeless Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a bit of buzz today about the fractures forming in the Conservative Party, with the splinter &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.homelesscons.com\/\">homeless Conservatives<\/a>&#8221; group threatening to rip the party <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">apart<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Scanning their website (brightly decorated with stars and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">stripes<\/span>), one quickly notices that this movement is a force to <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">reckoned<\/span> with. Already, they have recruited <em>dozens<\/em> of supporters. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Admittedly<\/span>, not all of these supporters are Canadian (the movement focuses on Canada, the US, and the UK). But it does contain such Tory power players as  Howard, Holy <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">GoRightly<\/span>, and Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n<p>The website also has an endorsements section, where they profile &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.homelesscons.com\/page\/politicians-worth-promoting\">politicians worth promoting<\/a>&#8220;. As a sign of just how despondent they are with the Conservative movement, the <em>only<\/em> Canadian politician they feel is worth promoting is Cheryl Gallant. Ouch.<br \/><http:><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a bit of buzz today about the fractures forming in the Conservative Party, with the splinter &#8220;homeless Conservatives&#8221; group threatening to rip the party apart. Scanning their website (brightly decorated with stars and stripes), one quickly notices that this movement is a force to reckoned with. Already, they have recruited dozens of supporters. Admittedly, [&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\/2213"}],"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=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}