{"id":836662,"date":"2025-03-25T13:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/lilley-doug-fords-gamble-paid-off-in-a-third-majority-pc-government\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:12:24","slug":"lilley-doug-fords-gamble-paid-off-in-a-third-majority-pc-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/lilley-doug-fords-gamble-paid-off-in-a-third-majority-pc-government\/","title":{"rendered":"LILLEY: Doug Ford\u2019s gamble paid off in a third majority PC government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Ford took a gamble on calling an early election and it paid off. Despite criticism from the opposition parties that he had called an unnecessary and self-serving election \u2014 both of those claims are true \u2014 the voters who decided to show up rewarded Ford and his PC Party with his third majority government&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/lilley-doug-fords-gamble-paid-off-in-a-third-majority-pc-government\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Brian Lilley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Ford took a gamble on calling an early election and it paid off. Despite criticism from the opposition parties that he had called an unnecessary and self-serving election \u2014 both of those claims are true \u2014 the voters who decided to show up rewarded Ford and his PC Party with his third majority government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22240,46706,192],"tags":[11752,46705],"class_list":{"0":"post-836662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fords","8":"category-lilley","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-fords","11":"tag-lilley"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}