{"id":305,"date":"2007-07-01T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/07\/01\/happy-canada-day\/"},"modified":"2007-07-01T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T16:58:52","slug":"happy-canada-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Happy Canada Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image303\" alt=\"Giants of the North\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/giantsreda.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nYes, Canada Day, because we&#8217;re pretty straight-forward up here.<\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I hope you get a chance to celebrate this most glorious of days in true Canadian fashion, with some Poutine (french fries with cheese curds, with gravy poured over top so everything melts), smoked meat (I have no idea what animal smoked meat is from, actually), and a good Canadian beer or two. Also, as good as Labatt&#8217;s Blue and Molson Export are as compared to, say, <em>most American beers <\/em>(from big breweries that is), I implore you to consider that most people under the age of 30 drink those beers ironically, if at all.<\/p>\n<p>So, Happy Canada Day! Whether you&#8217;re a Canadian or just wish you were (and you&#8217;re welcome to come up!) this is the one day a year where we can be rowdy about how awesome we are. Tomorrow we&#8217;ll just nod and smile politely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chris<br \/>\n(Giants of the North image by Seth, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrightawards.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Doug Wright Awards<\/strong><\/a>. Pixel-Canada image by R.Stevens, from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieselsweeties.com\/shirts\/index3.shtml\">Diesel Sweeties<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image304\" alt=\"canadatwopointeh500.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/canadatwopointeh500.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, Canada Day, because we&#8217;re pretty straight-forward up here. \u00c2\u00a0 I hope you get a chance to celebrate this most glorious of days in true Canadian fashion, with some Poutine (french fries with cheese curds, with gravy poured over top so everything melts), smoked meat (I have no idea what animal smoked meat is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=305\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Canada Day!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}