{"id":47,"date":"2011-02-06T01:01:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T01:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-02-06T01:01:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T01:01:16","slug":"the-great-white-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"The Great White North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December and January I spent a decent amount of time in Canada.\u00a0 First was a trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edmonton\">Edmonton<\/a> where I learned how fantastic heating parking garages are.\u00a0 January was a short vacation in Montreal.\u00a0 A friend of mine studies at McGill so I went up for a visit.\u00a0 While there I climbed Mont Royal, explored the old city, saw some amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Joseph%27s_Oratory\">churches<\/a>, ate at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schwartzsdeli.com\/\">Schwartz\u2019s<\/a>, saw some fireworks, and in general had a lovely time.\u00a0 The city oozes charm.<\/p>\n<p>While in Canada I made a few observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DVR\u2019s are called PVR\u2019s (Personal Video Recorder)<\/li>\n<li>Straws are narrower in diameter (possibly because free refills are not  as common?)<\/li>\n<li>They have Aerobars which are my favorite candy bar<\/li>\n<li>Cott\u2019s Black Cherry Soda is amazing<\/li>\n<li>Lifesavers are better there (future blog post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December and January I spent a decent amount of time in Canada.\u00a0 First was a trip to Edmonton where I learned how fantastic heating parking garages are.\u00a0 January was a short vacation in Montreal.\u00a0 A friend of mine studies at McGill so I went up for a visit.\u00a0 While there I climbed Mont Royal,&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/?p=47\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}