{"id":2513,"date":"2009-12-17T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2009-12-17T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T01:24:00","slug":"lantichambre-of-second-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Antichambre of Second Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2009\/12\/16\/put-me-in-next-year-coach\/#more-98302\">Martin Patriquin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">As with most Journal stories, today\u2019s Demers yarn is entirely summarized by its headline. \u201cHockey Before The Senate: Jacques Demers promises to be more present\u2026 next year!\u201d The story details how on 16 occasions Demers has had to choose between the highest echelons of Canadian government and a professional hockey team\u2026 and he chose the professional hockey team. As an (admittedly very good) analyst, Demers jawbones each and every Canadiens match on RDS. He is a slight more verbose when talking hockey than expressing his sober second thoughts: as the Journal notes, Demers has piped up exactly twice since his Senate appointment in September, once to commemorate the Habs\u2019 100th season, and once to settle a horde of randy Senators, allowing his colleague Wilbert Keon to speak. \u201cLet the Senator speak and you can make your comments after,\u201d he said. Sure thing, coach!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember the good old days when Reform MPs would wear sombreros to protest do-nothing Senators? Now they&#8217;re <em>appointing<\/em> them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Martin Patriquin: As with most Journal stories, today\u2019s Demers yarn is entirely summarized by its headline. \u201cHockey Before The Senate: Jacques Demers promises to be more present\u2026 next year!\u201d The story details how on 16 occasions Demers has had to choose between the highest echelons of Canadian government and a professional hockey team\u2026 and [&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\/2513"}],"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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}