{"id":696,"date":"2006-01-12T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=696"},"modified":"2006-01-12T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T00:31:00","slug":"glad-im-not-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Glad I&#8217;m Not Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems a few other people are starting to worry about a Tory majority government&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_PrintFriendly&#038;c=Article&amp;amp;cid=1137019812647&amp;call_pageid=974089105216\">Conservatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It actually makes sense. A Harper majority means:<\/p>\n<p>1. Martin leaves cleanly, without trying to stick around.<br \/>2. He&#8217;ll be expected to follow through on his entire platform.<br \/>3. He won&#8217;t be able to use the minority government excuse for &#8220;shifting to the centre&#8221;. Because of this, his base will become mighty peeved when he doesn&#8217;t deliver what they expect him to deliver.<br \/>4. The same sex marriage free vote he&#8217;s promised might actually pass. That&#8217;s one head-ache he probably doesn&#8217;t want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems a few other people are starting to worry about a Tory majority government&#8230;Conservatives. It actually makes sense. A Harper majority means: 1. Martin leaves cleanly, without trying to stick around.2. He&#8217;ll be expected to follow through on his entire platform.3. He won&#8217;t be able to use the minority government excuse for &#8220;shifting to [&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\/696"}],"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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}