{"id":387,"date":"2005-06-23T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=387"},"modified":"2005-06-23T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T05:01:00","slug":"vaughan-grit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Vaughan Grit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a little startled this morning to get a big mail-out pamphlet from Maurizio Bevilacqua, a former future Martin Cabinet star.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong: I&#8217;m as interested in the goings-on in Vaughan, Ontario as the next Calgarian. And it is very reassuring to find out that Maurizio is &#8220;taking my message to Ottawa&#8221; and that &#8220;my priorities are his priorities&#8221;. I must admit that the thought briefly crossed my mind that just maybe everybody&#8217;s favourite dark horse in the unofficial Liberal leadership campaign is laying the groundwork for a future push. But after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damianpenny.com\/archived\/002056.html\">the good treatment Maurizio has received from the PM in the past<\/a>, I&#8217;d be shocked if this were the case.<\/p>\n<p>And for what it&#8217;s worth, while he lacks name recognition, Maurizio is likely a more serious candidate than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20050601.wxvople01\/BNStory\/National\">certain other Italian Liberal MPs who will go unnamed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a little startled this morning to get a big mail-out pamphlet from Maurizio Bevilacqua, a former future Martin Cabinet star. Don&#8217;t get me wrong: I&#8217;m as interested in the goings-on in Vaughan, Ontario as the next Calgarian. And it is very reassuring to find out that Maurizio is &#8220;taking my message to Ottawa&#8221; [&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\/387"}],"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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}