{"id":45483,"date":"2021-04-26T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45483"},"modified":"2021-04-25T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T14:52:26","slug":"qotd-maple-flavoured-schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/04\/26\/qotd-maple-flavoured-schadenfreude\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Maple-flavoured <em>schadenfreude<\/em>"},"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 10px 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><em>Schadenfreude<\/em> is of course the German word for taking pleasure in the discomfort of others. There should be a specific Canadian variant to indicate our enjoyment of Americans&#8217; discomfort, which is and always has been a major source of satisfaction for many of our media elites. Maybe <em>schadenfreud<\/em>-eh?<\/p>\n<p>William Watson, <a href=\"https:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/opinion\/william-watson-smug-canada-probably-wouldnt-let-in-a-caravan-of-migrants-either\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Smug Canada probably wouldn&#8217;t let in a caravan of migrants either&#8221;, <em>Financial Post<\/em><\/a>, 2018-10-26.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schadenfreude is of course the German word for taking pleasure in the discomfort of others. There should be a specific Canadian variant to indicate our enjoyment of Americans&#8217; discomfort, which is and always has been a major source of satisfaction for many of our media elites. Maybe schadenfreud-eh? William Watson, &#8220;Smug Canada probably wouldn&#8217;t let [&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":[6,57,28,41,13],"tags":[400,907],"class_list":["post-45483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-language","tag-snobbery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bPB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45483","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=45483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65342,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45483\/revisions\/65342"}],"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=45483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}