{"id":513,"date":"2014-05-08T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T12:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/?p=513"},"modified":"2014-05-11T04:04:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T04:04:17","slug":"oh-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/2014\/05\/08\/oh-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Canada!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wpid-img_20140507_112805.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20140507_112805.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wpid-img_20140507_112805.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the above has been sitting in his den all winter eating and drinking .. the other is a bear &#8230;&#x1f601;<\/p>\n<p>So here we are in Canada ( actually the photo is of Marty with a friendly Minnesotan in the airport en route to Montreal). Normally most Americans don&#8217;t consider Canada a foreign country. But we&#8217;re talking FRENCH Canada here. <\/p>\n<p>One reason we chose to visit Quebec province was because Bunny&#8217;s ancestors are French Canadian (on her mom&#8217;s side; hence her given name Yvonne). Another reason was to see if we could get French speaking people to smile. Hadn&#8217;t had a ton of luck with that in France . (We could use your help Scott ! Ben too!)<\/p>\n<p>Our plan of attack is the same as it was in France (motto: if at first you don&#8217;t succeed, try, try, try&#8230;): we go with a smile and a &#8220;bonjour!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We are happy to report our preliminary results: Canadians are friendly, even if they speak French! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>PS: We went to Chinatown for dinner last night and Marty told the waiter &#8220;grazie!&#8221; The waiter looked confused &#8211; so did Marty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the above has been sitting in his den all winter eating and drinking .. the other is a bear &#8230;&#x1f601; So here we are in Canada ( actually the photo is of Marty with a friendly Minnesotan in the airport en route to Montreal). Normally most Americans don&#8217;t consider Canada a foreign country. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}