{"id":593,"date":"2011-06-22T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2011-06-27T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T14:20:38","slug":"someecards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/someecards\/","title":{"rendered":"Someecards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you familiar with someecards<\/a>? If not, make sure you have some free time before you visit their site. If you’re easily offended or lack a sense of humour, I recommend not clicking the link and finding something more appropriate to do like watching paint dry.<\/p>\n

Every week I received a round up email from someecards and I’ll admit, I don’t always click on the message and it’s lost in the abyss that is my inbox.<\/p>\n

But this morning, I opened that email and this is was one of the ecards featured and I can’t even tell you how much I laughed early this morning.<\/p>\n

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In all seriousness, I was appalled by the riots<\/a> in Vancouver<\/a> and was so disappointed to see such unacceptable actions. I watched game seven and was proud when Canucks<\/a> fans stood up and cheered enthusiastically for their team during the last minute of play when it was obvious the home team wasn’t going to win.<\/p>\n

But shortly after that touching moment, news reports started coming out about violent acts, riots and looting occurring in downtown Vancouver. A few days later I heard inn an interview that someone admitted they were part of a group who brought a truck downtown with them with the intent to burn the vehicle if Vancouver lost. I couldn’t believe it.<\/p>\n

There are lots of psychologist studies on mob mentality and how the combination of adrenaline, young men and alcohol can be a toxic mixture… but in my opinion there’s also one other explanation: pure stupidity and an absence of common sense.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t proud to be Canadian on the morning of June 16 and after all the Stanley Cup hype of “cheering for Canada’s team” the response to the loss was a slap in the face. Maybe some people in our fine country felt that Vancouver was Canada’s team<\/em>, but the city did a great job of being very unCanadian<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What did you think of the post Stanley Cup “celebrations” in Vancouver?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you familiar with someecards? If not, make sure you have some free time before you visit their site. If you’re easily offended or lack a sense of humour, I recommend not clicking the link and finding something more appropriate to do like watching paint dry. Every week I received a round up email from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[64,52,4,75],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zorl-9z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}