{"id":186021,"date":"2014-06-12T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/12\/canada-is-a-couple-of-hundred-pounds-smarter-today\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T23:24:00","slug":"canada-is-a-couple-of-hundred-pounds-smarter-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/12\/canada-is-a-couple-of-hundred-pounds-smarter-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada is a Couple of Hundred Pounds Smarter Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great Charlie Pierce made the above comment in response to the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/Canada_Is_Free_Of_Ted_Cruz\">Senator Ted Cruz has formally renounced his Canadian citizenship<\/a>, and he follows up with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Now, if they don&#8217;t build our old friend the Keystone XL pipeline, America will be completely free of noxious imports from Alberta.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rofl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great Charlie Pierce made the above comment in response to the news that Senator Ted Cruz has formally renounced his Canadian citizenship, and he follows up with this: Now, if they don&#8217;t build our old friend the Keystone XL pipeline, America will be completely free of noxious imports from Alberta. Rofl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1113,1002,1053,978,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-good-writing","category-immigration","category-politics","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}