{"id":15507,"date":"2012-06-15T14:17:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15507"},"modified":"2012-06-15T14:17:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:17:42","slug":"anthem-thoughts-by-colby-cosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/anthem-thoughts-by-colby-cosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthem thoughts by Colby Cosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the opening ceremonies of the England vs Sweden match, Colby muses on the opposing national anthems:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Swedish national anthem is &quot;Kill all bastards who aren&#39;t us&quot;-themed like everyone else&#39;s, yeah? No verses about preventing STDs or anything.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/status\/213707238349619200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Funnily enough, what passes for England&#39;s anthem is one of the LEAST kill-all-bastardsy out there. &quot;Our Queen is nice! We like her a lot!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/status\/213707587701575680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And Andrew Coyne finds an ominous atmosphere:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\/statuses\/213707315503841281<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the opening ceremonies of the England vs Sweden match, Colby muses on the opposing national anthems: Swedish national anthem is &quot;Kill all bastards who aren&#39;t us&quot;-themed like everyone else&#39;s, yeah? No verses about preventing STDs or anything. &mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) June 15, 2012 Funnily enough, what passes for England&#39;s anthem is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,20],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-15507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-soccer","tag-sweden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-427","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15508,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions\/15508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}