{"id":2774,"date":"2010-10-18T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2012-05-29T13:55:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:55:34","slug":"whats-the-matter-with-the-calgary-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2774","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the matter with the Calgary Sun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgarysun.com\/comment\/editorial\/2010\/10\/17\/15720821.html\">endorses <\/a>a Harvard elitist for Mayor of Calgary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The Sun has never shied away from taking a bold stand when we believe it will benefit Calgarians.<\/p>\n<p>We believe Naheed Nenshi should be Calgary\u2019s next mayor.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Luckily, they explain their decision:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">He\u2019s a prof at Mount Royal University, but doesn\u2019t engage in the egghead bafflegab we\u2019ve come to expect from some academics.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/whats-matter-with-calgary.html\">I warned Calgarians their city was going soft<\/a>. I won&#8217;t issue the Sun a similar warning, but endorsing professors in political races is the first step on a slippery slope&#8230;if they&#8217;re not careful, the sunshine girl may soon be replaced with a page of book reviews or some other elitist nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun endorses a Harvard elitist for Mayor of Calgary: The Sun has never shied away from taking a bold stand when we believe it will benefit Calgarians. We believe Naheed Nenshi should be Calgary\u2019s next mayor. Luckily, they explain their decision: He\u2019s a prof at Mount Royal University, but doesn\u2019t engage in the egghead [&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":[1069,141,1],"tags":[1078,1016],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774"}],"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=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}