{"id":2506,"date":"2009-12-08T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2009-12-08T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T04:46:00","slug":"this-and-that-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2506","title":{"rendered":"This and That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Voting in the first round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/vote-2009\/\">2009 Canadian Blog Awards<\/a> is open until Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>2. Voting in the first round of my &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/moment-of-decade.html\">Political Moment of the Decade<\/a>&#8221; contest is open until Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>3. Voting in the first round of <a href=\"http:\/\/daveberta.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/vote-now-albertas-political-moment-of.html\">Daveberta&#8217;s Alberta version<\/a> is open until Saturday. [<em>And, yes, contrary to popular opinion stuff actually did happen this decade in Alberta<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>4. Look! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/ignatieff-to-call-for-pension-plan-reform\/article1391993\/\">Liberal policy<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>5. Look! <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2009\/12\/07\/joe-what\/\">Joe Clark<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/insidepolitics\/2009\/12\/hst-rebelwatch-martin-cadman----caucus-of-two.html\">Keith Martin and Dona Cadman<\/a> are being mavericks, doing mavericky things on the HST vote.<\/p>\n<p>7. Finally, does anyone think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianjean.ca\/\">the Tory MP sites&#8230;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/Sx15dfh-f-I\/AAAAAAAABak\/t2N4n-1gXLQ\/s1600-h\/brianjean.JPG\"><img style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 202px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412615874756378594\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/Sx15dfh-f-I\/AAAAAAAABak\/t2N4n-1gXLQ\/s320\/brianjean.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;look a lot like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pm.gc.ca\/eng\/default.asp\">PM&#8217;s government of Canada website<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/Sx15OcfyAaI\/AAAAAAAABac\/bJrNJO4OXJ0\/s1600-h\/PMwebsite.JPG\"><img style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 209px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412615616243827106\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/Sx15OcfyAaI\/AAAAAAAABac\/bJrNJO4OXJ0\/s320\/PMwebsite.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Hat Tip &#8211; KH)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Voting in the first round of the 2009 Canadian Blog Awards is open until Saturday. 2. Voting in the first round of my &#8220;Political Moment of the Decade&#8221; contest is open until Thursday night. 3. Voting in the first round of Daveberta&#8217;s Alberta version is open until Saturday. [And, yes, contrary to popular opinion [&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\/2506"}],"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=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}