{"id":35129,"date":"2016-07-01T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35129"},"modified":"2016-06-20T09:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:40:22","slug":"qotd-the-usa-is-finally-over-the-war-of-1812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/07\/01\/qotd-the-usa-is-finally-over-the-war-of-1812\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The USA is finally over the War of 1812"},"content":{"rendered":"

On behalf of the United States of America and the Department of Defense, I wish our partners in North American defense a very Happy Canada Day.<\/p>\n

We have long stood on the same team, as allies, except for the War of 1812, which was 200 years ago and no one really remembers that anymore. I certainly don\u2019t spend a lot of time thinking about how insane it would be to ever trust a Canadian, and definitely never think about how fast and easy it would be to grow the United States from 50 states to 60.<\/p>\n

This day celebrates over 148 years of a united Canada, one of the most peaceful, democratic and stable nations on Earth. You are an example to the world, and we as Americans celebrate alongside you, not to keep an eye on what you\u2019re doing to make sure you don\u2019t start building a coalition to say, bombard Baltimore Harbor again, but because the lessons of the past make us stronger together. And really, we should be even closer together.<\/p>\n

Canada Day recognizes the day in which three independent colonies united as one Canada. America, too, is a nation of independent colonies, united under a shared vision of liberty and justice for all. If one were to really think about it, it would make a lot of sense to have a larger America, from sea to shining Arctic sea, and really it probably would have happened a century ago if some of the colonies wouldn\u2019t have started backing the British, even after they interfered with Atlantic shipping.<\/p>\n

We could have called it, I don\u2019t know, \u201cAmerida\u201d for a while, but honestly United States of America is a great name so I think we\u2019d just go for that. Occasionally I toy around with thinking about how we could have solved that bi-lingualism burden Canada has. Like Montreal, Atlanta was a beautiful, old world city too \u2014 until November 16, 1864. I think we\u2019d get rid of that quirky metric system, too. If you ask me, freedom isn\u2019t divisible by ten. But that\u2019s certainly not the kind of thing that I\u2019d think about on Canada Day. Canada Day is a joyful day for celebration.<\/p>\n

“Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter”, “SECDEF: This Canada Day, We Are Totally Over War Of 1812”, Duffelblog<\/em><\/a>, 2015-07-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On behalf of the United States of America and the Department of Defense, I wish our partners in North American defense a very Happy Canada Day. We have long stood on the same team, as allies, except for the War of 1812, which was 200 years ago and no one really remembers that anymore. I […]<\/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":[6,7,57,41,13],"tags":[463,566],"class_list":["post-35129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-humour","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-parody","tag-warof1812"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-98B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35129","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=35129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35130,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35129\/revisions\/35130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}