{"id":2824,"date":"2010-12-23T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2010-12-23T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T17:21:00","slug":"please-help-you-can-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2824","title":{"rendered":"Please Help: You Can Make a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s easy to get caught up in the lights, the presents, and the shopping this time of year. We all do, myself included.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s important to remember that there are many less fortunate than us out there who won&#8217;t be able to buy their children expensive new Christmas toys.<\/p>\n<p>Take newly appointed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2010\/12\/22\/larry-smith-senator.html\">Conservative Senator Larry Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Newly named Conservative Senator Larry Smith denied he was employing a cynical political strategy by accepting a Senate position while planning to run as an MP in the future, saying he has taken <strong>a &#8220;dramatic, catastrophic&#8221; pay cut<\/strong> to serve the public.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, Larry Smith will only be making $132,000 as a Senator. I don&#8217;t know about you, but hearing about this just breaks my heart.<\/p>\n<p>So what can we do? Well, before you splurge on that extra gift for your son or mother, I would suggest sending a cheque to the following address:<\/p>\n<p>Larry Smith Catastrophic Relief Fund<br \/>The Senate of Canada,<br \/>Ottawa, Ontario<br \/>Canada<br \/>K1A 0A4<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE<\/em><\/strong>: Video <a href=\"http:\/\/savelarrysmith.tumblr.com\/\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s easy to get caught up in the lights, the presents, and the shopping this time of year. We all do, myself included. But it&#8217;s important to remember that there are many less fortunate than us out there who won&#8217;t be able to buy their children expensive new Christmas toys. Take newly appointed [&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\/2824"}],"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=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}