{"id":979,"date":"2008-07-01T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=979"},"modified":"2008-07-01T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T14:55:18","slug":"happy-canada-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/07\/01\/happy-canada-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Canada Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the day that Canada officially marks as its birthday, when it joined the east and west coast provinces with a rail line or something typically socialist like that.\u00c2\u00a0 And remember, Queen Elizabeth is still in charge, so it&#8217;s not a Canadian independence day celebration or anything.<\/p>\n<p>But, since their dollar is still worth more than ours, I ought not mock too loudy.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, I&#8217;ll repost Cory Doctorow&#8217;s link to <a href=\"http:\/\/lonitagraham.tripod.com\/sitebuildercontent\/sitebuilderfiles\/arrogantworms-thewarof1812.mp3\">this most excellent song about the War of 1812<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only do you get a little bit of that rarity &#8211; Canadian Aggressiveness &#8211; but I think I even hear some pride in there.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re still not convinced, check the lyrics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In 1812 Madison was mad,<br \/>\nHe was the president you know.<br \/>\nWell he thought he&#8217;d tell the British where they ought to go.<br \/>\nHe thought he&#8217;d invade Canada,<br \/>\nHe thought that he was tough.<br \/>\nInstead we went to Washington,<br \/>\nAnd burned down all his stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the White House burned, burned, burned.<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;re the ones that did it,<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the day that Canada officially marks as its birthday, when it joined the east and west coast provinces with a rail line or something typically socialist like that.\u00c2\u00a0 And remember, Queen Elizabeth is still in charge, so it&#8217;s not a Canadian independence day celebration or anything. But, since their dollar is still worth more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}