{"id":2653,"date":"2010-05-16T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2010-05-16T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T23:13:00","slug":"signs-michael-ignatieff-has-nothing-to-worry-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2653","title":{"rendered":"Signs Michael Ignatieff has Nothing to Worry About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit, I&#8217;m a little disappointed in Angelo Persichilli&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/809825--persichilli-michael-ignatieff-s-25-per-cent-problem\">column today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not because he speculates about the Liberals dumping Ignatieff. Not because he muses about who would replace Ignatieff (including&#8230;wait for it<em>&#8230;<\/em>Frank McKenna!).<\/p>\n<p>No, the reason I&#8217;m disappointed is that he couldn&#8217;t find a single anonymous source, Liberal strategist, or party insider to grumble about Ignatieff or muse about dumping him. Even the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/insert-overhyped-headline-here.html\">computer journalist <\/a>would have been able to round up a &#8220;senior backroom operative&#8221; or two, off the record.<\/p>\n<p>So it likely bodes well for Ignatieff that speculation about his demise has gone from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/comment\/article\/734749\">full blown coup<\/a> attempts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/809825--persichilli-michael-ignatieff-s-25-per-cent-problem\">to this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">I don\u2019t believe anyone is trying to unseat Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff. However, just in case I\u2019m wrong, this is how it could happen.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit, I&#8217;m a little disappointed in Angelo Persichilli&#8217;s column today. Not because he speculates about the Liberals dumping Ignatieff. Not because he muses about who would replace Ignatieff (including&#8230;wait for it&#8230;Frank McKenna!). No, the reason I&#8217;m disappointed is that he couldn&#8217;t find a single anonymous source, Liberal strategist, or party insider to grumble [&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\/2653"}],"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=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}