{"id":4074,"date":"2012-09-14T09:27:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T13:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2012-09-14T09:27:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T13:27:57","slug":"edgard-peter-lougheed-1928-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4074","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Peter Lougheed 1928-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4075\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lougheed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lougheed-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lougheed\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lougheed-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lougheed.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Lougheed helped Alberta come of age in the 70s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave the extended eulogies for those who knew the man and lived through his heyday as Alberta Premier.<\/p>\n<p>What I will say is that Lougheed, despite being in politics long enough to make a lot of enemies, is one of the rare politicians who was respected across the political spectrum, and across the country. Voters from this blog voted him <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.ca\/2007\/09\/now.html\">Canada&#8217;s Best Premier<\/a> in 2007, and earlier this year the Institute for Research on Public Policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3315\">agreed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of where you rank Lougheed, he was undeniably Alberta&#8217;s greatest political statesman, and one of Canada&#8217;s. The PC dynasty may live on, but this is truly the end of an era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll leave the extended eulogies for those who knew the man and lived through his heyday as Alberta Premier. What I will say is that Lougheed, despite being in politics long enough to make a lot of enemies, is one of the rare politicians who was respected across the political spectrum, and across the country. [&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":[49],"tags":[992],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-politics","tag-peter-lougheed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","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=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}