{"id":948,"date":"2006-06-01T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=948"},"modified":"2006-06-01T01:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T05:39:00","slug":"crack-open-the-piggy-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Crack Open The Piggy Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060601.wxvolpe01\/BNStory\/National\/home\">This story<\/a> keeps getting more and more ridiculous by the day. It&#8217;s no longer a case of teenagers donating 5 grand to uncle Joe &#8211; it&#8217;s now <em>eleven year olds <\/em>doing it<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having family members donate large sums is an obvious loophole to the current laws everyone has known about for some time. And I suspect it would be very hard to prosecute anyone for breaching the financing law for offenses like this.<\/p>\n<p>That said, how the Volpe campaign can continue to pretend this is no big deal is beyond me. It&#8217;s obvious that the donations should be returned before his campaign uses up what little ethical credibility it has left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story keeps getting more and more ridiculous by the day. It&#8217;s no longer a case of teenagers donating 5 grand to uncle Joe &#8211; it&#8217;s now eleven year olds doing it. Having family members donate large sums is an obvious loophole to the current laws everyone has known about for some time. And I [&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-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}