{"id":259,"date":"2005-02-18T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=259"},"modified":"2005-02-18T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T20:19:00","slug":"259","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Dithers! Release the Hounds!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Often enough, it&#8217;s not policy decisions or broken promises that destroy politicians. It&#8217;s stupid little things like dropped footballs and purple dinosaurs. Perception is everything.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/na\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3669408\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20050217.wdithery0217\/BNStory\/National\/\"> is not good<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dithers! Release the Hounds! Often enough, it&#8217;s not policy decisions or broken promises that destroy politicians. It&#8217;s stupid little things like dropped footballs and purple dinosaurs. Perception is everything. And this, is not good.<\/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\/259"}],"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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}