{"id":495,"date":"2006-06-10T21:24:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T01:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2006-06-10T21:24:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T01:24:24","slug":"woah-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2006\/06\/10\/woah-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"woah, canada."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the folks in Edmonton this eve for a kick-ass rendition of our national anthem on live TV. Paul Lorieau has been making a habit lately of turning the pre-game singing duties of O Canada over to the assembled masses at Rexall Place. It&#8217;s working. They sing it loud and proud in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/striatic\/152120449\/in\/photostream\/\">Oil Country<\/a>, and it kind of grabs you by the heart when you see that kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how often we get to see that kind of spirit from our friends in Alberta (both Edmonton and Calgary). The rest of the country could learn a thing or six from them.<\/p>\n<p>Go Oilers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the folks in Edmonton this eve for a kick-ass rendition of our national anthem on live TV. Paul Lorieau has been making a habit lately of turning the pre-game singing duties of O Canada over to the assembled masses at Rexall Place. It&#8217;s working. They sing it loud and proud in Oil 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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}