{"id":2316,"date":"2009-06-19T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2009-06-19T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T12:22:00","slug":"this-week-in-alberta-iris-knows-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2316","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Alberta &#8211; Iris Knows Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She may not know a lot about delivering balanced budgets, but Alberta&#8217;s Finance Minister Iris Evans knows how you should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/Life\/Evans+sorry+parenting+remarks\/1708092\/story.html\">raising your children<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">She reportedly said good parenting means sacrificing some income to stay at home when kids are young, which her children have done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve understood perfectly well that when you&#8217;re raising children you don&#8217;t both go off to work and leave them for somebody else to raise,&#8221; Evans told the audience. &#8220;This is not a statement against day care. It&#8217;s a statement about their belief in the importance of raising children properly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/Health\/Evans+stresses+parent+should+stay+home\/1708321\/story.html\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">[&#8230;]<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The huge failure of Canadians is not to educate the children properly, and then why should we be surprised when they have mental illnesses or commit dreadful crimes?&#8221; she asked.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She may not know a lot about delivering balanced budgets, but Alberta&#8217;s Finance Minister Iris Evans knows how you should be raising your children: She reportedly said good parenting means sacrificing some income to stay at home when kids are young, which her children have done. &#8220;They&#8217;ve understood perfectly well that when you&#8217;re raising children [&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\/2316"}],"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=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}