{"id":48613,"date":"2015-04-28T09:43:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T13:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=48613"},"modified":"2015-04-28T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T13:43:13","slug":"albertas-gilligans-island-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=48613","title":{"rendered":"Alberta&#8217;s Gilligan&#8217;s Island Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48614\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/debate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/debate-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Math is difficult. The most difficult math at the moment is figuring out where Prentice finds the 40 seats he needs for a majority.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/debate-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/debate.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Math is difficult. The most difficult math at the moment is figuring out where Prentice finds the 40 seats he needs for a majority.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/dan-arnold-how-the-smooth-sailing-to-a-13th-pc-majority-in-alberta-went-off-course\">latest for the Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 2012 clash between Danielle Smith and Alison Redford was an epic battle between two gifted politicians. It was must-see-TV for political junkies. The 2015 campaign? It reads like a script of Gilligan\u2019s Island with bumbling gaffes and nonsensical plot lines. I mean, honestly, the prospect of an NDP government in Alberta seems about as plausible as a coconut phone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest for the Post: The 2012 clash between Danielle Smith and Alison Redford was an epic battle between two gifted politicians. It was must-see-TV for political junkies. The 2015 campaign? It reads like a script of Gilligan\u2019s Island with bumbling gaffes and nonsensical plot lines. I mean, honestly, the prospect of an NDP government [&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":[1468,49],"tags":[1469,1108,1107,1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48613"}],"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=48613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48616,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48613\/revisions\/48616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}