{"id":41393,"date":"2020-02-18T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41393"},"modified":"2020-02-17T09:34:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T14:34:19","slug":"qotd-boring-old-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/qotd-boring-old-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Boring old Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Canada may be the nicest country on earth. Bad things don&#8217;t happen in Canada, or at least not very often, because Canadians are far too nice to let them. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, here in America, bad things are what we call &#8220;news&#8221;. Canada&#8217;s undoubtedly a land of rich blessings for its residents (weather aside), but it makes it a little hard to write about. <\/p>\n<p>Jane Galt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janegalt.net\/blog\/archives\/005132.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Blame Canada &#8230;&#8221;, <em>Asymmetrical Information<\/em><\/a>, 2005-01-18.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada may be the nicest country on earth. Bad things don&#8217;t happen in Canada, or at least not very often, because Canadians are far too nice to let them. Unfortunately, here in America, bad things are what we call &#8220;news&#8221;. Canada&#8217;s undoubtedly a land of rich blessings for its residents (weather aside), but it makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[],"class_list":["post-41393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-quotations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aLD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41393","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=41393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55078,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41393\/revisions\/55078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}