{"id":2215,"date":"2009-04-01T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2009-04-01T23:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T03:42:00","slug":"i-dont-want-to-get-off-on-a-rant-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Want To Get Off On A Rant Here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have anything really relevant to comment on today but I feel to need to bump the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/exclusive-roll-up-attack-ads.html\">April Fool&#8217;s post<\/a> off the top of the blog come April 2nd. So, I give you a pair of recent Rick Mercer rants &#8211; one taking aim at the Grits, and one taking aim at the Tories. Both excellent examples of using comedy to make a point<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"295\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xwtbUGaMmd8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xwtbUGaMmd8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object height=\"295\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BS_ifo8tdKA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BS_ifo8tdKA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have anything really relevant to comment on today but I feel to need to bump the April Fool&#8217;s post off the top of the blog come April 2nd. So, I give you a pair of recent Rick Mercer rants &#8211; one taking aim at the Grits, and one taking aim at the Tories. [&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\/2215"}],"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=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}