{"id":3123,"date":"2011-08-30T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2011-08-30T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T03:40:00","slug":"best-news-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3123","title":{"rendered":"Best News of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit it. I was worried it would be difficult to find blog content in the new majority government reality. And then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/breakingnews\/128701343.html\">this gift from the blogging gods<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"arial\"><strong>Martin may run for NDP leadership in bid for Liberal merger<br \/>\n<br \/><\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>OTTAWA &#8211; Manitoba NDP MP Pat Martin says he\u2019ll run for the NDP leadership himself if no candidates step forward pledging to take the party into formal unity talks with the federal Liberals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I firmly believe we have the ability to stop the Harper agenda,&#8221; said Martin. &#8220;I\u2019m serving notice that that\u2019s what I want to hear from a leadership candidate. And I\u2019m not alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Martin said he knows of several people from both parties who believe the same thing. He isn\u2019t seeking the leadership job yet but he says he will do it if it means members can vote for someone willing to lead the two parties to a united stand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If none of them throw it on the table, I\u2019ll do it myself,&#8221; he said.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, a Pat Martin leadership bid! Get ready for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zkSmWGweHvs\">puppet shows<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/martin-on-martin.html\">orgy <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/2010-in-quotes.html\">KY Jelly <\/a>quotes, and <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/tuesday-tid-bits.html\">Santa Claus cameos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing which could top that in terms of entertainment value would be a televised summit between Martin and Denis Coderre to draft a merger manifesto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit it. I was worried it would be difficult to find blog content in the new majority government reality. And then, this gift from the blogging gods: Martin may run for NDP leadership in bid for Liberal merger OTTAWA &#8211; Manitoba NDP MP Pat Martin says he\u2019ll run for the NDP leadership himself if [&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\/3123"}],"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=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}