{"id":15123,"date":"2003-03-21T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-21T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/21\/french-canadians-suck-too\/"},"modified":"2003-03-21T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-21T11:48:00","slug":"french-canadians-suck-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/21\/french-canadians-suck-too\/","title":{"rendered":"French Canadians Suck Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Sports Illustrated<\/i> reports that &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/hockey\/news\/2003\/03\/20\/anthem_booed_ap\/index.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadien fans booed during the playing of the U.S. national anthem<\/a> before the New York Islanders&rsquo; 6-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night.&rdquo;  Islander forward Mark Parrish says,  &ldquo;I came to the game pretty pumped up, but once I heard that it really got me going. So I guess I can thank them a little bit for getting me more pumped up.&rdquo;  In your face!<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed Montreal when I visited there about 10 years ago, but even back then there was a vague sense of rudeness.  I&rsquo;d like to think that this scene at the hockey game was an isolated occurance not representative of the general populace, but I&rsquo;m not so sure these days.  For now I&rsquo;ll just fan the flames of intolerance and stick with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/archive\/2003_03_16_archive.html#200015713\" target=\"_blank\">original assertion<\/a>: The French suck. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200022089?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Illustrated reports that &ldquo;Montreal Canadien fans booed during the playing of the U.S. national anthem before the New York Islanders&rsquo; 6-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night.&rdquo; Islander forward Mark Parrish says, &ldquo;I came to the game pretty pumped up, but once I heard that it really got me going. So I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/21\/french-canadians-suck-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;French Canadians Suck Too?&#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-15123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}