{"id":2602,"date":"2010-03-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2010-03-24T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:00:00","slug":"wells-v-coyne-how-conservative-are-the-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Wells v. Coyne: How conservative are the Conservatives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well worth reading:<\/p>\n<p>Paul Wells on just <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2010\/03\/19\/harper%E2%80%99s-hard-right-turn\/\">how conservative the Conservatives are<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2010\/03\/22\/hard-right-hardly\/\">Andrew Coyne on how they\u2019re not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think this exchange really illustrates Harper\u2019s strategy. In short, own the centre and govern like Liberals, but toss a few symbolic conservative\/reform gestures to the base to keep them and their chequebooks happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well worth reading: Paul Wells on just how conservative the Conservatives are. And Andrew Coyne on how they\u2019re not. I think this exchange really illustrates Harper\u2019s strategy. In short, own the centre and govern like Liberals, but toss a few symbolic conservative\/reform gestures to the base to keep them and their chequebooks happy.<\/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\/2602"}],"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=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}