{"id":415,"date":"2009-05-15T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/05\/15\/from-far-and-wide-o-canada\/"},"modified":"2009-05-15T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:04:00","slug":"from-far-and-wide-o-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/05\/15\/from-far-and-wide-o-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"From far and wide, O Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my oldest and best Vancouver friends&#8230; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>who was a grad student in my postdoc department&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>who I first met (properly) at a house party in early 2002&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>who turned up with a huge group of friends&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>who the party&#8217;s host told me I should definitely meet, because she was dating (now married to) a local guy with tons of single male friends&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>at whose home I met one of said friends for the first (and second) time&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>who picked me up and drove me, my Dad, and my sister to the resulting wedding when no local taxi firm would take an advance booking, and when they were then all 100% occupied by a double cruise ship arrival when I called back later as instructed&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>who has worked <span style=\"font-style: italic\">insanely<\/span> hard for<span style=\"font-style: italic\"> years<\/span> to convert her professional qualification into something that is recognised in Canada&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>is going to become a citizen less than 2 weeks after I do!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re planning a combined party in celebration of this momentous event. 100% Canadian food, booze, and music.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty awesome, eh?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my oldest and best Vancouver friends&#8230; who was a grad student in my postdoc department&#8230; who I first met (properly) at a house party in early 2002&#8230; who turned up with a huge group of friends&#8230; who the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/05\/15\/from-far-and-wide-o-canada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}