{"id":2648,"date":"2010-05-11T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2010-05-11T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T22:32:00","slug":"conservatives-take-power-through-undemocratic-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2648","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives take power through undemocratic coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/election_2010\/8675265.stm\">Cameron strikes a deal with the Lib Dems<\/a>, giving them 5 Cabinet positions and (I assume) a referendum on PR.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of this, if you want one, is that there&#8217;s nothing inherently evil about coalition governments. In this case, it made a lot of sense. Back when Dion tried it, it really didn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully we can be mature enough about this issue should we ever find ourselves uttering the C word again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron strikes a deal with the Lib Dems, giving them 5 Cabinet positions and (I assume) a referendum on PR. The moral of this, if you want one, is that there&#8217;s nothing inherently evil about coalition governments. In this case, it made a lot of sense. Back when Dion tried it, it really didn&#8217;t it. [&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\/2648"}],"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=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}