{"id":15326,"date":"2002-12-17T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-17T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/17\/blame-canada\/"},"modified":"2002-12-17T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-17T12:20:00","slug":"blame-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/17\/blame-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Guardian<\/i> has an interesting report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,3604,860663,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">how Canadians view the United States<\/a>.  &ldquo;Essentially, Canadians regard all Americans as morons, unless proven otherwise.&rdquo;  Thanks, W.  Actually, the story makes some compelling points about American apathy and ignorance towards Canada; one in particular stood out: &ldquo;the Bush administration has compounded this with a series of gratuitously casual snubs. When the president spoke to congress after the attacks and praised Tony Blair and Britain to the skies, Canada &#8211; whose cooperation was crucial to the return to any kind of post-attack normality &#8211; was forgotten.&rdquo;  Thanks, W.  Way to work that foreign policy&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90061989?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has an interesting report on how Canadians view the United States. &ldquo;Essentially, Canadians regard all Americans as morons, unless proven otherwise.&rdquo; Thanks, W. Actually, the story makes some compelling points about American apathy and ignorance towards Canada; one in particular stood out: &ldquo;the Bush administration has compounded this with a series of gratuitously &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/17\/blame-canada\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blame Canada&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}