{"id":2596,"date":"2010-03-16T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2010-03-16T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T23:14:00","slug":"somewhere-stephane-dion-is-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere, Stephane Dion is smiling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harper’s pre-taped YouTube interview is late getting started – now 15 minutes and counting…<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/span>: And the video is up<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Harper goes with the suit and tie, which strikes me as a bit formal for a YouTube video. Yeah, yeah, I’m not expecting torn jeans and a Hannah Montana t-shirt, but maybe he could have gone with the Ahmadinejad-casual look.<\/p>\n

So far, tough questions on deficit and foreign aid. Harper dodges them. But still, good on him for doing this interview. I wouldn’t mind seeing this sort of thing from all the party leaders on a semi-regular basis – it gets Canadians engaged, and we’ll get more substance out of this than from 50,000 question periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harper’s pre-taped YouTube interview is late getting started – now 15 minutes and counting… UPDATE: And the video is up! Harper goes with the suit and tie, which strikes me as a bit formal for a YouTube video. Yeah, yeah, I’m not expecting torn jeans and a Hannah Montana t-shirt, but maybe he could have […]<\/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\/2596"}],"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=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}