{"id":229,"date":"2005-01-12T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=229"},"modified":"2005-01-12T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T04:48:00","slug":"229","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Doing His Job<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The volume of praise for Conservatives on this blog is no doubt fleeting. And I&#8217;m positive I have never said nice things about a Conservative Premier here before. But after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20050112.whamm0112\/BNStory\/National\/\">this story<\/a>, I&#8217;ve got to give full marks to John Hamm. Instead of throwing a hissy fit, flinging insults, and taking down the flag, Hamm quietly negotiated to ensure his people got the best possible deal. As a result, Nova-Scotians will be better off.<\/p>\n<p>Will it get him votes at home? Probably not. Danny Williams, meanwhile, will likely get re-elected with a massive majority. But John Hamm did what he was elected to do and he deserves credit for that.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing His Job The volume of praise for Conservatives on this blog is no doubt fleeting. And I&#8217;m positive I have never said nice things about a Conservative Premier here before. But after reading this story, I&#8217;ve got to give full marks to John Hamm. Instead of throwing a hissy fit, flinging insults, and taking [&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\/229"}],"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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}