{"id":146,"date":"2009-06-07T22:19:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T20:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=146"},"modified":"2009-06-20T07:58:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T05:58:34","slug":"what-i-learned-last-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/07\/what-i-learned-last-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"what i learned last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. whereas 41% of canadians own a passport, only 20% of americans do. consequently, canada has more to lose as a result of the new american border-crossing rules for people entering the states from canada. since the americans will need a passport to get home, they probably won&#8217;t bother leaving in the first place, so canada loses out on the cross-border shopping.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/20\/no-shortcutsno-shortcuts\/\">there are no shortcuts to the perfect sound<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. it&#8217;s not easy to figure out who to vote for in today&#8217;s eu elections. (as a canadian, this isn&#8217;t my problem, but i also learned that i&#8217;m glad that it isn&#8217;t&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>4. late-night watching of the history channel while you&#8217;re waiting for your 7-week old to fall asleep in your arms is bad for you, since it makes you start to give serious consideration to people who believe in uso&#8217;s (unidentified submerged objects which are like the love-child of a ufo and a submarine) and atlantis. maybe this explains why people buy jewellery on the shopping network at 2:00 in the morning as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>5. in 2004 there was a case of wide-spread sexual abuse brought before the court on pitcairn island. this tiny island, inhabited by the descendants of those who mutinied on the bounty. see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/article499137.ece\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>6. i want to read a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-lopez-skidrow-nathaniel-series,0,1456093.special\">the soloist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. whereas 41% of canadians own a passport, only 20% of americans do. consequently, canada has more to lose as a result of the new american border-crossing rules for people entering the states from canada. since the americans will need a passport to get home, they probably won&#8217;t bother leaving in the first place, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fluff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-2m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}