{"id":4926,"date":"2013-03-30T11:06:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T15:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4926"},"modified":"2013-03-30T11:06:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T15:06:46","slug":"ralphs-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4926","title":{"rendered":"Ralph&#8217;s World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/klein.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/klein.jpg\" alt=\"klein\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/klein.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/klein-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the passing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4074\">Peter Lougheed<\/a> last year, another Alberta PC titan is gone, with Ralph Klein passing away at the age of 70.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is customary to offer tributes and praise at times like this, many of my motivations for getting involved in politics grew from a strong dislike of the way Klein was governing Alberta. Over the years, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1291\">haven&#8217;t been shy about criticizing the man on this blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What I will say is that Ralph was, hands down, one of the best Canadian politicians of his generation. He single-handedly saved the PC dynasty in 1993, and stayed popular with the public, in spite of (or because of) his colourful antics. He remains the gold standard of the folksy &#8220;every day man&#8221; politician &#8211; someone voters felt they could relate to and trust. <\/p>\n<p>In a world of cookie-cutter politicians, Ralph Klein was special. He will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the passing of Peter Lougheed last year, another Alberta PC titan is gone, with Ralph Klein passing away at the age of 70. Although it is customary to offer tributes and praise at times like this, many of my motivations for getting involved in politics grew from a strong dislike of the way Klein [&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":[1070],"class_list":["post-4926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-politics","tag-ralph-klein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926","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=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4929,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}