{"id":2255,"date":"2009-05-05T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2009-05-05T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T03:44:00","slug":"goodbye-newman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2255","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this while in Vancouver, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090504.wnewman04art1624\/BNStory\/lifeWork\/\">Don Newman will be signing off<\/a> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">CBC&#8217;s<\/span> Politics <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">brooooaaaaaadcast<\/span> for the last time this June. This is <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">disappointing<\/span> news, since Newman is one of the best political journalists in Canada &#8211; fair to all his guests and respectful of them, but also able to ask the tough question and slice through the BS.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I have to identify the moment I started watching Don&#8217;s show as the crossing of the line from casual political user to full-blown junkie. So, because of that, I&#8217;ll personally be sad to see him go.<\/p>\n<p>I would go on with my praise, but I need to be fair with time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this while in Vancouver, but Don Newman will be signing off CBC&#8217;s Politics brooooaaaaaadcast for the last time this June. This is disappointing news, since Newman is one of the best political journalists in Canada &#8211; fair to all his guests and respectful of them, but also able to ask the tough question [&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\/2255"}],"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=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}