{"id":3278,"date":"2012-04-05T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2012-05-29T13:29:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:29:37","slug":"meet-mulcairs-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3278","title":{"rendered":"Meet Mulcair&#8217;s Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object style=\"height: 234px; width: 384px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k3nRM0XP_sQ?version=3&#038;feature=player_profilepage\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k3nRM0XP_sQ?version=3&#038;feature=player_profilepage\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"384\" height=\"234\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The much-anticipated NDP attempt to define Thomas Mulcair has arrived, <em>en francais<\/em> at least. In it, we&#8217;re treated to close ups of Mulcair&#8217;s forearms (so that the Tories won&#8217;t dare call him a &#8220;weak leader&#8221;), then Tom rolls up his sleeves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;cut to Mulcair in a suit. Why was he rolling up his sleeves in the previous scene? Or is this a flashback? Will we find out in the next ad? I&#8217;m baffled. This is season 4 of Lost all over again.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Mulcair gets off the key NDP lines: <em>listening, working together, green economy, plan, vision<\/em>. All good things.<\/p>\n<p>So on the whole, it&#8217;s not a bad introduction. I wouldn&#8217;t say it defines Mulcair, but he looks serious and pleasant at the same time, which is the important thing. The ad is about warming voters up to a man with a gruff reputation and, on that score, it should do the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-anticipated NDP attempt to define Thomas Mulcair has arrived, en francais at least. In it, we&#8217;re treated to close ups of Mulcair&#8217;s forearms (so that the Tories won&#8217;t dare call him a &#8220;weak leader&#8221;), then Tom rolls up his sleeves&#8230; &#8230;cut to Mulcair in a suit. Why was he rolling up his sleeves in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,983],"tags":[979],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ads","category-federal-politics","tag-thomas-mulcair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3427,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions\/3427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}