{"id":15539,"date":"2012-06-17T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T14:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15539"},"modified":"2013-01-14T09:13:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T14:13:38","slug":"for-the-weekend-ill-have-to-be-a-turncoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/17\/for-the-weekend-ill-have-to-be-a-turncoat\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;For the weekend, I&#8217;ll have to be a turncoat&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some obscure reason (hint: because they didn&#8217;t win) American re-enactors are much less fond of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20120615\/NEWS07\/120615021\/U-S-snubs-War-of-1812-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\">War of 1812 re-enactments<\/a> than Canadians:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the first big battle of the War of 1812 is re-enacted this fall, the U.S. 1st Artillery regiment will mount an ear-splitting barrage. The Yanks will point their cannons at British redcoats across the Niagara River in Canada. They will wear blue. They will curse King George.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike 200 years ago, they will all be Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>Many Americans aren&#8217;t that into the War of 1812 \u2014 not like Canadians, anyway \u2014 so the latter often play the former in re-enactments along the international border here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the weekend, I&#8217;ll have to be a turncoat,&#8221; says John Sek, 60, an English-born Canadian who will play a U.S. Army gunnery captain in the Battle of Queenston Heights. &#8220;There isn&#8217;t the same interest in the war on your side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To grossly generalize: Canadians, whose forebears helped repulse several U.S. invasions in 1812, regard the war that began 200 years ago Monday as a crucible of national identity. For them, its bicentennial is a big deal. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some obscure reason (hint: because they didn&#8217;t win) American re-enactors are much less fond of War of 1812 re-enactments than Canadians: When the first big battle of the War of 1812 is re-enacted this fall, the U.S. 1st Artillery regiment will mount an ear-splitting barrage. The Yanks will point their cannons at British redcoats [&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":[6,7,5,13],"tags":[384,87,874,566],"class_list":["post-15539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","category-usa","tag-newyork","tag-ontario","tag-re-enacting","tag-warof1812"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-42D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539","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=15539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18563,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539\/revisions\/18563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}