{"id":3315,"date":"2012-05-04T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2012-05-29T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T15:43:24","slug":"the-premier-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3315","title":{"rendered":"The premier Premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-nvbvO3MGVBk\/T6QJXVlGwAI\/AAAAAAAADJI\/_SvQ_KrLvr0\/s1600\/lougheed+NOW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-nvbvO3MGVBk\/T6QJXVlGwAI\/AAAAAAAADJI\/_SvQ_KrLvr0\/s320\/lougheed+NOW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irpp.org\/po\/archive\/jun12\/leonard.pdf\">Institute for Research on Public Policy<\/a> ranks Peter Lougheed as Canada&#8217;s best Premier from the last 40 years.\u00a0Rounding out the top 5:<\/p>\n<p>1. Peter Lougheed<br \/>\n2. William Davis<br \/>\n3. Allan Blakeney<br \/>\n4. Frank McKenna<br \/>\n5. Robert Bourassa<\/p>\n<p>I ran a similar <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.ca\/2007\/09\/now.html\">&#8220;best Premier&#8221; contest<\/a> among blog readers back in 2007, March-Madness Style.\u00a0Lougheed came out on top of that one as well, edging out Oliver Mowat in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for Research on Public Policy ranks Peter Lougheed as Canada&#8217;s best Premier from the last 40 years.\u00a0Rounding out the top 5: 1. Peter Lougheed 2. William Davis 3. Allan Blakeney 4. Frank McKenna 5. Robert Bourassa I ran a similar &#8220;best Premier&#8221; contest among blog readers back in 2007, March-Madness Style.\u00a0Lougheed came out [&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":[121,978,976],"tags":[994,993,995,997,992,996],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-premier","category-calgary-grit-contests-and-polls","category-politicalhistory","tag-allan-blakeney","tag-bill-davis","tag-frank-mckenna","tag-oliver-mowat","tag-peter-lougheed","tag-robert-bourassa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","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=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}