{"id":2355,"date":"2009-08-01T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2009-08-01T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T17:02:00","slug":"canadas-silliest-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2355","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Silliest Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honour of Harper’s wafer waffle, now a month old and back in the news<\/a>, I’ll be tossing up a poll to crown Canada’s all-time silliest scandal next week.<\/p>\n

“Silliest” can be interpreted however you want, but I would suggest “gets way<\/em> more attention than it deserves” as a guideline.<\/p>\n

So submit your nominations below. Scandal names ending in “gate” are preferred<\/span>, since that adds to their silliness, but suggestions of good scandals from back in the day are also welcome. Lost luggage, dropped footballs…there’s definitely material there for a good list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honour of Harper’s wafer waffle, now a month old and back in the news, I’ll be tossing up a poll to crown Canada’s all-time silliest scandal next week. “Silliest” can be interpreted however you want, but I would suggest “gets way more attention than it deserves” as a guideline. So submit your nominations below. […]<\/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\/2355"}],"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=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}