{"id":2289,"date":"2009-05-31T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2009-05-31T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T13:10:00","slug":"with-a-little-help-from-his-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2289","title":{"rendered":"With a Little Help from his Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Kennedy is always one to take a different approach to the political game, so it should come as no surprise that he&#8217;s going outside the box to pay down the last of his 2006 leadership debt.<\/p>\n<p>The event is called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennedyandfriends.ca\/\">opening doors with Kennedy and friends<\/a>&#8221; and there are a lot of friends &#8211; Bob Rae, Bonnie <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Crombie<\/span>, Mark Holland, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Kirsty<\/span> Duncan, Omar <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Alghabra<\/span>, and some guys named <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">McGuinty<\/span> and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Ignatieff<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a series of seminars and dinners about politics (June 9th and 14th in Toronto), so it&#8217;s certainly an opportunity to get something more than just rubber chicken and 10 seconds of face time for your donation dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Kennedy is always one to take a different approach to the political game, so it should come as no surprise that he&#8217;s going outside the box to pay down the last of his 2006 leadership debt. The event is called &#8220;opening doors with Kennedy and friends&#8221; and there are a lot of friends &#8211; [&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\/2289"}],"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=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}