{"id":241,"date":"2006-06-23T22:38:54","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T02:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2006-06-23T22:38:54","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T02:38:54","slug":"harper-crashes-jean-de-baptiste-day-without-crashing-any-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Harper Crashes St. Jean Baptiste Day &#8230; Without Crashing Any Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strike>Today<\/strike>Tomorrow is St. Jean Baptiste day.  (<strike>It also<\/strike>Today happens to be Cookie&#8217;s birthday.  Happy Birthday Cookie!!).  For many this day, which is a statutory holiday in the province of Quebec, is often marked with storefront windows being smashed, looting and it is often tied to the separatist movement within la Belle Province.<\/p>\n<p>I, and probably the churches, find this highly ass backwards.  You see, for those who care to make the easy translation Jean de Baptiste is John the Baptist.  I am curious how the man who is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_the_Baptist\">regarded as a prophet by three religions<\/a> has become a symbol of vandalism, theft and separation?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps one of my readers from Quebec can help answer this curiousity.<\/p>\n<p>I was very pleased to hear that our Prime Minister has chosen to take part in some of the celebrations.  Not only does it help show Quebecers that he respects the holiday, but it shows he respects them.  And I am glad he <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20060623\/harper_quebec_060623\/20060623?hub=TopStories\">set a good example<\/a> by enjoying the day without smashing any windows, without looting, and without promoting separation.<\/p>\n<p>Bonne F\u00eate mes amis en Quebec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TodayTomorrow is St. Jean Baptiste day. (It alsoToday happens to be Cookie&#8217;s birthday. Happy Birthday Cookie!!). For many this day, which is a statutory holiday in the province of Quebec, is often marked with storefront windows being smashed, looting and it is often tied to the separatist movement within la Belle Province. I, and probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}