{"id":135,"date":"2006-09-14T08:21:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T15:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2006-09-14T08:21:44","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T15:21:44","slug":"not-my-country-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/not-my-country-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Not my country please&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, some of my ex-idii colleagues started an email back and forth about the general state of affairs in the US with a ridiculous dose of Canadian-envy. I hate these types of conversations. People like to think of Canada as a &#8220;sleeping giant&#8221; in my industry, generally though we&#8217;re usually thought of as nice and naive people&#8230; as if coming from a country where nature is part of our heritage and ladnscape made our IQ sink and our sensibility became something laughable. There&#8217;s nothing enviable about a country that only makes the news when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2006\/09\/14\/gunman-shooting.html\">sad events<\/a> happen. There&#8217;s nothing enviable here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today, I wish i were home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, some of my ex-idii colleagues started an email back and forth about the general state of affairs in the US with a ridiculous dose of Canadian-envy. I hate these types of conversations. People like to think of Canada as a &#8220;sleeping giant&#8221; in my industry, generally though we&#8217;re usually thought of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/not-my-country-please\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not my country please&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-2b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}