{"id":2244,"date":"2009-04-28T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2009-04-28T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T02:21:00","slug":"liberal-convention-2009-iggy-nation-within-a-united-liberal-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Convention 2009: Iggy Nation (Within a United Liberal Party)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be flying out to the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/post-about-nothing.html\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">notaSeinfeldconvention<\/span><\/a> tomorrow night. And even though it&#8217;s a leadership convention without voting, or suspense, or novelty tambourines<em>,<\/em> it should prove to be a good time.<\/p>\n<p>To begin my convention coverage, I&#8217;ve posted interviews with the two Young Liberal Presidential candidates, <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/talking-to-john-lennard.html\">John Lennard<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/talking-to-sam-lavoie.html\">Sam <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Lavoie<\/span><\/a>. I&#8217;m not a young Liberal anymore, and I&#8217;m not endorsing or supporting either of the candidates, so I post the interviews without comment. I know John and Sam &#8211; they&#8217;re both good guys who would do a great job. I must say, I was very impressed with <em>both<\/em> of their answers on the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">WOMOV question<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow night, I&#8217;ll have my review of the change commission report, and Thursday morning the Michael <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Ignatieff<\/span> profile goes up. From there on in, there will be copious amounts of convention blogging&#8230;and, hell, if it turns into a non-event, there&#8217;s a BC election <em>and<\/em> a <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Canucks<\/span> playoff run to cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be flying out to the notaSeinfeldconvention tomorrow night. And even though it&#8217;s a leadership convention without voting, or suspense, or novelty tambourines, it should prove to be a good time. To begin my convention coverage, I&#8217;ve posted interviews with the two Young Liberal Presidential candidates, John Lennard and Sam Lavoie. I&#8217;m not a young [&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":[568],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244"}],"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=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}