{"id":2654,"date":"2010-05-19T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2010-05-19T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:23:00","slug":"please-forgive-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2654","title":{"rendered":"Please Forgive Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/world\/story\/2007\/06\/07\/harper-bono.html\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Harper says meeting Bono isn&#8217;t his &#8216;shtick&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Stephen Harper snubbed U2 singer and activist Bono at the G8 summit, saying he is too busy to discuss the African AIDS crisis with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My priority here this week is to meet with other leaders,&#8221; Harper told reporters in Heiligendamm, Germany, where the summit is being held.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meeting celebrities isn&#8217;t my shtick,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That was the shtick of the previous guy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That was then. Now? Screw the hockey book, Harper seems keen on putting a band together.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/811276--bryan-adams-jams-with-stephen-harper?bn=1\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Bryan Adams jams with Stephen Harper<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA\u2014Jamming with Bryan Adams, hosting Chad Kroeger at 24 Sussex and getting an authentic Gene Simmons bass guitar shaped like a battle axe.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harper says meeting Bono isn&#8217;t his &#8216;shtick&#8217; Prime Minister Stephen Harper snubbed U2 singer and activist Bono at the G8 summit, saying he is too busy to discuss the African AIDS crisis with him. &#8220;My priority here this week is to meet with other leaders,&#8221; Harper told reporters in Heiligendamm, Germany, where the summit is [&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\/2654"}],"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=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}