{"id":640,"date":"2011-07-01T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2011-06-27T11:54:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T14:24:36","slug":"oh-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/01\/oh-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Canada Day, <a href=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2008\/07\/01\/two-aspects-of-july-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve taken time to remind<\/a> my fellow Canadians that this is a day of memorial and mourning in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newfoundlandlabrador.com\/\">Newfoundland and Labrador<\/a>. No, this isn&#8217;t dark humour or an implication that your eastern sibling isn&#8217;t happy to be part of our great country. It&#8217;s because during World War I on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.nf.ca\/greatwar\/articles\/somme.html\" target=\"_blank\">July 1, 1916<\/a>,\u00a0The Battle of the Somme at Beaumont Hamel began.<\/p>\n<p>But because I&#8217;m in the grande old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\">United States of America<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada_day\" target=\"_blank\">Canada Day<\/a>, it seems only fitting to share this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.someecards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Someecards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.someecards.com\/canada-day-cards\/on-canada-day-best-of-luck\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.someecards.com\/someecards\/filestorage\/best-luck-canada-day-ecard-someecards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HAPPY CANADA DAY!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Canada Day, I&#8217;ve taken time to remind my fellow Canadians that this is a day of memorial and mourning in Newfoundland and Labrador. No, this isn&#8217;t dark humour or an implication that your eastern sibling isn&#8217;t happy to be part of our great country. It&#8217;s because during World War I on July 1, 1916,\u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/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":[64,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zorl-ak","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}