{"id":3189,"date":"2011-11-17T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2011-11-17T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T22:16:00","slug":"time-for-some-fing-civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3189","title":{"rendered":"Time for some F&#8217;ing Civility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-co2mp3ZAmsg\/TsV5-RuqceI\/AAAAAAAACvY\/ADcomHJpCFI\/s1600\/civility.jpg\"><img style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 136px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676077016188350946\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-co2mp3ZAmsg\/TsV5-RuqceI\/AAAAAAAACvY\/ADcomHJpCFI\/s200\/civility.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>I bookmarked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/local\/loudmouth-mp-martin-promises-civil-speech-122570978.html\">this news story<\/a> as soon as I saw it in May because, Pat Martin being Pat Martin, I knew it wouldn&#8217;t be long before it would be worth resurrecting:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">&#8220;This is my new policy,&#8221; Martin said, holding up a handful of party-coloured buttons he had made reading &#8220;Opto Civitas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I choose civility. That&#8217;s the new me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He had 300 buttons made up in all party colours &#8212; including a green one for Green party MP Elizabeth May &#8212; and plans to hand them out when the House resumes sitting next week.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For an update on how Pat Martin&#8217;s quest for civility is going, I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/m\/rich\/canada\/story\/2011\/11\/17\/mb-pat-martin-twitter.html\">this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bookmarked this news story as soon as I saw it in May because, Pat Martin being Pat Martin, I knew it wouldn&#8217;t be long before it would be worth resurrecting: &#8220;This is my new policy,&#8221; Martin said, holding up a handful of party-coloured buttons he had made reading &#8220;Opto Civitas.&#8221; &#8220;I choose civility. That&#8217;s [&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\/3189"}],"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=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}