{"id":2407,"date":"2009-09-14T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2009-09-14T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T01:54:00","slug":"his-faith-in-math-has-been-shaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2407","title":{"rendered":"His Faith in Math has Been Shaken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blnz.com\/news\/2008\/08\/28\/Canadas_Harper_sees_Parliament_life_9194.html\">One year ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">&#8220;I just believe the math. The math is such that it is extremely difficult for any political party to win a majority,&#8221; said Harper, who later chiding Dion for predicting that the Liberals could win a majority.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/September2009\/10\/c4089.html\">Now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">In a closed meeting, held last week in Sault Ste. Marie, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a group of Conservative supporters that he needs a majority mandate so the Conservatives can proceed with their plan to dismantle gun control.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago: &#8220;I just believe the math. The math is such that it is extremely difficult for any political party to win a majority,&#8221; said Harper, who later chiding Dion for predicting that the Liberals could win a majority. Now: In a closed meeting, held last week in Sault Ste. Marie, Prime Minister Stephen [&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\/2407"}],"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=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}