{"id":3294,"date":"2012-04-17T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2012-05-29T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:21:08","slug":"there-goes-another-1000-good-behaviour-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3294","title":{"rendered":"There goes another $1,000 &quot;good behaviour&quot; bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-3lu-SXlq7XU\/T43R41OnkwI\/AAAAAAAADHQ\/KvdeNr-hSgI\/s1600\/Ron%2BLeech.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; height: 288px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732468675003781890\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-3lu-SXlq7XU\/T43R41OnkwI\/AAAAAAAADHQ\/KvdeNr-hSgI\/s400\/Ron%2BLeech.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wildrose candidate Ron Leech sees &#8220;being white&#8221; as his biggest advantage in this election. Personally, I think his biggest advantage is having a leader who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/CTVNews\/TopStories\/20120417\/wildrose-candidate-interview-comments-120417\/#ixzz1sKd0OD8o\">doesn&#8217;t seem to care<\/a> that he sees &#8220;being white&#8221; as his biggest advantage in this election. Because any other leader would have punted him from the ticket within minutes of saying this.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-family: arial;\"><p>Wildrose party leader Danielle Smith, who had to defend one of her candidates on Monday for posting anti-gay views online, came to Leech&#8217;s defence Tuesday, saying his comments are not cause for concern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I think that every candidate puts forward their best argument for why they should be the person who can best represent the community<\/strong>,&#8221; Smith said at a campaign event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildrose candidate Ron Leech sees &#8220;being white&#8221; as his biggest advantage in this election. Personally, I think his biggest advantage is having a leader who doesn&#8217;t seem to care that he sees &#8220;being white&#8221; as his biggest advantage in this election. Because any other leader would have punted him from the ticket within minutes of [&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":[950,49],"tags":[1061,1062],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294"}],"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=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}