{"id":2737,"date":"2010-08-27T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2010-08-27T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T13:20:00","slug":"two-month-old-news-as-it-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2737","title":{"rendered":"Two Month Old News As It Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20100825\/bevilacqua-resignation-100825\/20100825\/?hub=TorontoNewHome\">This<\/a> shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise to anyone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">OTTAWA \u2014 Veteran Liberal MP Maurizio Bevilacqua is resigning, paving the way for a mayoral bid in his hometown of Vaughan, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>Bevilacqua says he informed Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff Wednesday that he won&#8217;t be seeking re-election and the leader thanked him for his years of service, a party official said.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s expected to formally resign his parliamentary seat, which he&#8217;s held for 22 years, later this week.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This will set off an interesting fall in Vaughan, with a hotly contested mayoral race and a hotly contested by election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise to anyone: OTTAWA \u2014 Veteran Liberal MP Maurizio Bevilacqua is resigning, paving the way for a mayoral bid in his hometown of Vaughan, Ont. Bevilacqua says he informed Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff Wednesday that he won&#8217;t be seeking re-election and the leader thanked him for his years of service, [&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\/2737"}],"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=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}