{"id":566,"date":"2005-11-24T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=566"},"modified":"2005-11-24T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-24T23:35:00","slug":"king-ralph-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"King Ralph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media has had a fun time with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/calgary\/calgaryherald\/news\/story.html?id=0ac675d5-7b42-4776-b523-19cdc22c266f\">Ralph Klein&#8217;s prediction of a Liberal minority government<\/a>. The general consensus is that this is bad news for Harper and that it may be part of the long simmering feud between the two men.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not so sure. The more distance the CPC can get between Harper and Klein, the better off they are. So, if anything, this might actually be a <em>good <\/em>thing for Stephen Harper.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I did come across another one of <a href=\"http:\/\/slam.canoe.ca\/Slam\/Football\/CFL\/GreyCup\/2004\/06\/10\/493795.html\">Ralph&#8217;s old predictions here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">Premier Ralph Klein predicts Edmonton will roundly stomp Montreal 32-19.<\/span><\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That was in reference to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/sports\/football\/cfl\/greycup2003\/story.html?id=e9a2518f-8007-4f1b-9f21-4e389e3d5ad4\">2003 Grey Cup<\/a>. The final score of that game?<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton 34<br \/>Montreal 22<\/p>\n<p>Not bad Ralph. Let&#8217;s see how close you are to the mark this time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media has had a fun time with Ralph Klein&#8217;s prediction of a Liberal minority government. The general consensus is that this is bad news for Harper and that it may be part of the long simmering feud between the two men. I&#8217;m not so sure. The more distance the CPC can get between Harper [&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\/566"}],"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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}