{"id":46411,"date":"2019-05-20T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46411"},"modified":"2019-04-30T14:01:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T18:01:32","slug":"qotd-victoria-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/qotd-victoria-day\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Victoria Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Happy Victoria Day, the day we honour an old queen by giving her not a moment&#8217;s thought. A year or two back, some professor thought we should change Victoria Day to Heritage Day to &#8220;strengthen our heritage.&#8221; We strengthen our heritage by obliterating it, apparently. &#8230; She was our first wholly constitutional monarch, and thus a critical figure at a critical time: She embodies the principle of peaceful evolution that distinguishes the Britannic world from &#8230; well, pretty much everywhere else, come to think of it.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Steyn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/index2.cfm?edit_id=69\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Victoria Day&#8221;, <em>The National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2002-05-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Victoria Day, the day we honour an old queen by giving her not a moment&#8217;s thought. A year or two back, some professor thought we should change Victoria Day to Heritage Day to &#8220;strengthen our heritage.&#8221; We strengthen our heritage by obliterating it, apparently. &#8230; She was our first wholly constitutional monarch, and thus [&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":[6,7,41],"tags":[396],"class_list":["post-46411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-quotations","tag-monarchy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c4z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46411","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=46411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48166,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46411\/revisions\/48166"}],"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=46411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}