{"id":6561,"date":"2018-10-17T21:58:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T21:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2018-10-19T02:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T02:03:12","slug":"donald-stovel-macdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6561","title":{"rendered":"DONALD STOVEL MACDONALD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald MacDonald, one of Canada&#8217;s senior statesmen, has passed. Mr. MacDonald was my High Commissioner during my posting to London.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=6562\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6562\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cambridge-reunion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3882\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cambridge-reunion.jpg 3882w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cambridge-reunion-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cambridge-reunion-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cambridge-reunion-1024x791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3882px) 100vw, 3882px\" \/><\/a><strong>CAMBRIDGE ICE HOCKEY REUNION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>End of an era in more ways than one. MacDonald, a prominent Liberal politician, who had served Prime Ministers Pearson and Pierre Trudeau, was appointed to London by conservative Prime Minister Mulroney&#8230;&#8230;. a crossing of the political divide that would be unthinkable in today&#8217;s poisoned political environment.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>AVE ATQUE VALE!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald MacDonald, one of Canada&#8217;s senior statesmen, has passed. Mr. MacDonald was my High Commissioner during my posting to London.\u00a0 CAMBRIDGE ICE HOCKEY REUNION End of an era in more ways than one. MacDonald, a prominent Liberal politician, who had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6561\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6565,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions\/6565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}