{"id":644,"date":"2005-12-26T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=644"},"modified":"2005-12-26T03:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T08:02:00","slug":"paul-martins-braintrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Paul Martin&#8217;s Braintrust&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;has had a tough <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20051118\/HERLESB18\/TPNational\/TopStories\">couple<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20051208\/elxn_campaign_stops_051211\/20051211?s_name=election2006\">months<\/a>, eh? Herle, Reid, Duffy&#8230;now <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macleans.ca\/paulwells\/archives\/week_2005_12_25-2005_12_31.asp#001993\">Mike Klander<\/a>. I&#8217;m taking bets on how long it will be before Karl Littler does something incredibly stupid.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s not exactly shocking to see the Board mess up, there are two surprising things about this:<\/p>\n<p>1. It wasn&#8217;t Scott Feschuck&#8217;s blog that got the Liberals in trouble.<br \/>2. Someone named <em>Klander<\/em> made fun of someone <em>else&#8217;s<\/em> last name&#8230;in a somewhat racist way&#8230;ouch.<\/p>\n<p>This may have been the best Christmas present Stephen Harper and Jack Layton could have asked for.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> I was going to spend Boxing Day sifting through the archives to find the juiciest bits from Klander&#8217;s slander, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephentaylor.ca\/archives\/000499.html\">Stephen Taylor <\/a>has the &#8220;highlights&#8221; detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephentaylor.ca\/archives\/000499.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;has had a tough couple of months, eh? Herle, Reid, Duffy&#8230;now Mike Klander. I&#8217;m taking bets on how long it will be before Karl Littler does something incredibly stupid. While it&#8217;s not exactly shocking to see the Board mess up, there are two surprising things about this: 1. It wasn&#8217;t Scott Feschuck&#8217;s blog that got [&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\/644"}],"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=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}