{"id":49,"date":"2005-07-13T23:26:12","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T23:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:55","slug":"poor-ralph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Poor Ralph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIt must be a cold day in hell when Ralph Klein announces that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20050713\/SAMESEX13\/TPInternational\/?query=Alberta+%2Bsame-sex\">the Alberta government has decided against fighting the new federal same-sex marriage legislation<\/a>, but that&#8217;s exactly what happened yesterday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile that is great news, what nearly got me blogging about this announcement yesterday was the photo that accompanied the story in the Globe and Mail. It looks as if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20050712.wgaymarriage0712\/BNStory\/National\/?query=Alberta+%2Bsame-sex\">this news scared the bejeezus out of poor Ralph<\/a>. Trust Rick Mercer and the readers of his fabulous blog to not let that picture go by without having some fun with it. <a href=\"http:\/\/rickmercer.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/yikes-start-your-photoshop.html\">Take a look at some fabulous new pictures of King Ralph<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/mondayreport\/\">Rick Mercer&#8217;s Monday Report<\/a> on CBC will be required viewing for my fall Canadian Culture seminar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be a cold day in hell when Ralph Klein announces that the Alberta government has decided against fighting the new federal same-sex marriage legislation, but that&#8217;s exactly what happened yesterday. While that is great news, what nearly got me blogging about this announcement yesterday was the photo that accompanied the story in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}