{"id":21058,"date":"2013-07-12T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T05:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21058"},"modified":"2013-07-11T12:06:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T17:06:27","slug":"qotd-canada-as-mirror-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/qotd-canada-as-mirror-america\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Canada as mirror-America"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Have you heard about this place called Canada? It&#8217;s like some weird parallel America where they never had a revolution. There&#8217;s some other differences too: It&#8217;s colder, for instance, and they call their Seattle &#8220;Vancouver.&#8221; Also, they keep their Louisiana in the north instead of the south, and every now and then it threatens to leave. Apparently, if you change just a few little variables like that, history comes out differently: You get socialized medicine, and a lot of signs and stuff are in French, and instead of <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> there was a show called <em>SCTV<\/em> which was funnier but didn&#8217;t last as long.<\/p>\n<p>Legend has it that if you journey to the far, far north, you can pass through a portal to this alternate America. Unless you live in Alaska, in which case I gather you have to drive west. (*)<\/p>\n<p>(* Or maybe east. The legends are cloudy.)<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Walker, <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/11\/canada-repeals-restriction-on-online-hat\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Canada Repeals Restriction on Online &#8216;Hate Speech'&#8221;, <em>Hit and Run<\/em><\/a>, 2013-07-11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard about this place called Canada? It&#8217;s like some weird parallel America where they never had a revolution. There&#8217;s some other differences too: It&#8217;s colder, for instance, and they call their Seattle &#8220;Vancouver.&#8221; Also, they keep their Louisiana in the north instead of the south, and every now and then it threatens to [&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":[6,57,41],"tags":[316,463,113],"class_list":["post-21058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-borders","tag-parody","tag-quebec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5tE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21058","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=21058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21060,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21058\/revisions\/21060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}