{"id":20870,"date":"2013-06-28T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T18:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20870"},"modified":"2014-01-24T09:06:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T14:06:51","slug":"edmonton-and-calgary-united-by-mutual-dislike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/edmonton-and-calgary-united-by-mutual-dislike\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton and Calgary &#8211; united by mutual dislike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the flooding hit Calgary, some of the first responders to the scene from outside the city were soldiers from Edmonton. There were several jokes on Twitter about the war of words between the two cities, and a few &#8220;invasion&#8221; hints, but for those of us outside Alberta local politics, we just didn&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/britl\/status\/350633357874450432\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Calgary-and-Edmonton-mutual-dislike.jpg\" alt=\"Calgary and Edmonton mutual dislike\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Calgary-and-Edmonton-mutual-dislike.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Calgary-and-Edmonton-mutual-dislike-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Calgary-and-Edmonton-mutual-dislike-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think we have a new meme.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Apparently the denizens of the internet are outraged by this smear on Edmonton by the <em>Calgary Herald<\/em> and are determined to pillory ... the <em>National Post<\/em>'s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/garnetfraser\/statuses\/350650745697206272\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Selley<\/a>? Even by internet vigilante standards, that doesn't make a lot of sense.<\/p>\n\n <\/--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the flooding hit Calgary, some of the first responders to the scene from outside the city were soldiers from Edmonton. There were several jokes on Twitter about the war of words between the two cities, and a few &#8220;invasion&#8221; hints, but for those of us outside Alberta local politics, we just didn&#8217;t know: I [&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":[6,28],"tags":[542,812,861,946,213],"class_list":["post-20870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","tag-alberta","tag-calgary","tag-edmonton","tag-flooding","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5qC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870","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=20870"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23940,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870\/revisions\/23940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}