{"id":3074,"date":"2011-06-19T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2011-06-19T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T21:40:00","slug":"mark-your-calendars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3074","title":{"rendered":"Mark Your Calendars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals have voted to pick a new leader sometime between March and June 2013. I was personally hoping for a shorter timeline but my sense from yesterday&#8217;s conference call is Liberals are ready to get to work rebuilding the party in the interim. I think it&#8217;s a little naive to assume no one will think about leadership for a year and a half, but this should at least cool the speculation for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming Rae stays as interim leader right up until the vote, that would give him between 21 and 25 months in charge of the party&#8230;not much different from the 29 months Ignatieff held the post, the 24 months Dion was in charge, or even the 26 months Paul Martin was LPC leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals have voted to pick a new leader sometime between March and June 2013. I was personally hoping for a shorter timeline but my sense from yesterday&#8217;s conference call is Liberals are ready to get to work rebuilding the party in the interim. I think it&#8217;s a little naive to assume no one will think [&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\/3074"}],"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=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}