{"id":2730,"date":"2010-08-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2010-08-19T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T13:00:00","slug":"party-like-its-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2730","title":{"rendered":"Party Like It&#8217;s 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the things to hold against Rob Ford, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cp24.com\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20100819\/100819_ford_drug\/20100819\/?hub=CP24Home\">this<\/a> is probably the least of them:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Mayoral candidate Rob Ford had a 1999 marijuana possession charge against him dropped, the Toronto Sun reports.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper says he was pulled over on vacation in Florida and was found with a joint in his back pocket on Valentine&#8217;s day 11 years ago.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But this story illustrates how Toronto&#8217;s mayoral election has become &#8220;<em>All. About. Ford<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And if the vote turns into a referendum on this tea party north candidate, that certainly bodes well for Smitherman.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2010\/08\/19\/rob-fords-no-good-very-bad-week-haunted-by-drug-charge\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\"><em>UPDATE<\/em><\/a><\/strong>: Ford has also admitted to being charged twice for assault and once for failing to provide a breathalyzer.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s go easy on Rob &#8211; let he who hasn&#8217;t been charged four times cast the first stone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the things to hold against Rob Ford, this is probably the least of them: Mayoral candidate Rob Ford had a 1999 marijuana possession charge against him dropped, the Toronto Sun reports. The newspaper says he was pulled over on vacation in Florida and was found with a joint in his back pocket on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[702],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-toronto-muncipal-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}