{"id":81064,"date":"2016-09-13T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T12:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=81064"},"modified":"2016-09-13T08:20:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T12:20:17","slug":"peter-mackay-says-hes-not-running-conservative-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/09\/13\/peter-mackay-says-hes-not-running-conservative-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter MacKay says he\u2019s not running for Conservative leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_81065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81065\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1410689_10151755894568513_1261840063_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81065\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1410689_10151755894568513_1261840063_o.jpg\" alt=\"Former cabinet minister Peter MacKay (Photo: Peter MacKay's official Facebook page)\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1410689_10151755894568513_1261840063_o.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1410689_10151755894568513_1261840063_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1410689_10151755894568513_1261840063_o-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1410689_10151755894568513_1261840063_o-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former cabinet minister Peter MacKay (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PeterGMacKay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter MacKay&#8217;s official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2013 Former cabinet minister Peter MacKay says he won\u2019t run for the Conservative leadership, ending a summer of speculation.<\/p>\n<p>The one-time Nova Scotia MP who now is working as a lawyer in Toronto, says the needs of his young family are his first priority and it would be asking too much of them to jump back into politics.<\/p>\n<p>He and wife Nazanin have two children, Kian, aged 3, and 11-month-old Valentia.<\/p>\n<p>MacKay said his decision came only after a summer of talking with friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was an enormous decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2013 Former cabinet minister Peter MacKay says he won\u2019t run for the Conservative leadership, ending a summer of speculation. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[10388,12203,696],"class_list":["post-81064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-conservative","tag-mackay","tag-peter-mackay","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}