{"id":2555,"date":"2010-01-24T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2010-01-24T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T04:11:00","slug":"a-brief-history-of-why-no-one-cares-about-prorogation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2555","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of why no one cares about prorogation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Anyone can get 20,000 in a Facebook group &#8211; call me when they pass the 127,000 in the anti-coalition groups.&#8221; <em>(<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=260348091419&amp;ref=ts\"><em>now 214,000<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s just Facebook. It won&#8217;t impact the polls.&#8221; <em>(<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2010\/01\/20\/ekos-poll020.html\"><em>Liberals and Conservatives in virtual tie<\/em><\/a><em>)<br \/><\/em><br \/>&#8220;But no one <em>really<\/em> cares. No one will actually show up at the protests.&#8221; <em>(<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2010\/01\/23\/prorogue-protests.html\"><em>most <\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/755053--thousands-protest-the-prorogue?bn=1\"><em>estimates <\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/from-facebook-to-filling-the-streets\/article1442056\/\"><em>have <\/em><\/a><em>comparable crowd sizes to last year&#8217;s <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/calgary.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/plocal\/CTVNews\/20081206\/coalition_rallies_081206\/20081206\/?hub=CalgaryHome\"><em>coalition rallies<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephentaylor.ca\/2010\/01\/a-sample-of-articles-about-the-history-of-prorogation-in-canada\/\"><em>It&#8217;s all the media&#8217;s fault<\/em><\/a><em>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Anyone can get 20,000 in a Facebook group &#8211; call me when they pass the 127,000 in the anti-coalition groups.&#8221; (now 214,000) &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s just Facebook. It won&#8217;t impact the polls.&#8221; (Liberals and Conservatives in virtual tie)&#8220;But no one really cares. No one will actually show up at the protests.&#8221; (most estimates have comparable crowd [&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\/2555"}],"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=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}