{"id":9,"date":"2002-05-18T17:28:52","date_gmt":"2002-05-19T00:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=9"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2002\/05\/18\/canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched a certain children’s cartoon show this morning which featured a (guest) Canadian character. And in defense of my people, I would like to say that we do not talk like that! (Well, most of us, anyway.) Sure, I say “eh?” a lot but it’s not that noticeable!! Kind of. And it’s “about,” not “aboot.” I don’t know a single person who says “aboot.” Heck, I don’t know a single person with that accent. It was a very very odd accent. Not West Coast, to be sure. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Ms. Patton’s going to come in any minute now and talk about Canadian lift, which is some kind of unconcious attempt to imitate the Scottish or Irish accents, which have a sort of sing-song lilt. Except when Canadians do it it doesn’t turn out and it just sounds like questions are being asked and then ended suddenly. I actually forget ^^;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched a certain children’s cartoon show this morning which featured a (guest) Canadian character. And in defense of my people, I would like to say that we do not talk like that! (Well, most of us, anyway.) Sure, I say “eh?” a lot but it’s not that noticeable!! Kind of. And it’s “about,” not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}