{"id":886,"date":"2006-04-04T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=886"},"modified":"2006-04-04T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T03:11:00","slug":"your-daily-dinning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"Your Daily Dinning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sent in from an alert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/edmontonjournal\/news\/cityplus\/story.html?id=45f1d262-cfd9-44f4-bc0a-219c60e6efa3\">Edmonton Journal <\/a>reader:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">That&#8217;s where Dinning showed up last month, as part of his unofficial leadership campaign, to give a speech, which made the front page of the Wainwright Star Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one message, the one message, I continue to receive is that in Edmonton and Calgary there are one million people per city. There are a million and a quarter people in the rest of the province. On average, more of those million and a quarter people get up in the morning and break into a sweat than those folks in Calgary and Edmonton &#8212; per capita,&#8221; Dinning said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cities would be sucking slough water, if it wasn&#8217;t for the hard-working people in the rest of the province.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">Dinning went on to compare the Queen Elizabeth II Highway to a bar linking the two ends of a dumbbell: Edmonton and Calgary. He then quoted a rural resident he&#8217;d met, who&#8217;d said: &#8220;If only we could get those two dumbbells to listen to the rest of us, we would have a much better province.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jim Dinning&#8217;s schedule for next week:<\/p>\n<p>Monday: Speak in Edmonton. Insult Flames.<br \/>Tuesday: Speak in Calgary. Insult Oilers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent in from an alert Edmonton Journal reader: That&#8217;s where Dinning showed up last month, as part of his unofficial leadership campaign, to give a speech, which made the front page of the Wainwright Star Chronicle. &#8220;The one message, the one message, I continue to receive is that in Edmonton and Calgary there are one [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}