{"id":2806,"date":"2010-11-25T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2010-11-25T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T00:04:00","slug":"he-could-have-ruled-for-1000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"He could have ruled for 1,000 years&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/TO7zOwqRMpI\/AAAAAAAACBI\/4VIGAOPclKE\/s1600\/danny-williams.jpg\"><img style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 256px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543635626245567122\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/TO7zOwqRMpI\/AAAAAAAACBI\/4VIGAOPclKE\/s320\/danny-williams.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Instead, Danny Williams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/newfoundland-premier-danny-williams-to-leave-politics\/article1813032\/\">calls it a career<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Few politicians get to leave at the height of their popularity &#8211; just ask Gordon Campbell. But Williams exits as one of the most popular politicians in the country and there&#8217;s no reason to believe he couldn&#8217;t have won another 2 or 3 (or 12) elections.<\/p>\n<p>Williams&#8217; departure will certainly leave a gaping hole on the federal scene &#8211; it&#8217;s not like Robert Ghiz, David Alward, or that guy in Manitoba are household names. Like Ralph Klein or Lucien Bouchard before him, Danny was a character, satirized from coast to coast, and leaving his mark on the federal scene.<\/p>\n<p>I touched on this a bit when <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/campbell-resigns.html\">Gordon Campbell resigned<\/a> earlier this month, but Williams&#8217; departure leaves Jean Charest and Dalton McGuinty as the the only premiers still standing with at least 2 election wins under their belt. And both of them could be gone within a year.<\/p>\n<p>If they do depart, that means Stephen Harper would have outlasted all ten of the Premiers in power when he first took office. Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead, Danny Williams calls it a career. Few politicians get to leave at the height of their popularity &#8211; just ask Gordon Campbell. But Williams exits as one of the most popular politicians in the country and there&#8217;s no reason to believe he couldn&#8217;t have won another 2 or 3 (or 12) elections. Williams&#8217; departure [&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\/2806"}],"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=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}