{"id":167,"date":"2004-11-04T00:19:18","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T05:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=167"},"modified":"2004-11-05T21:08:24","modified_gmt":"2004-11-06T02:08:24","slug":"thinking-of-escaping-to-canada-not-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of escaping to Canada?  Not so fast&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada, well aware that quite a few disgruntled left-thinking people are fed up with the US and are considering a change of scenery, has made it clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=1896&#038;ncid=1896&#038;e=5&#038;u=\/nm\/20041103\/us_nm\/election_canada_haven_dc_1\">it won&#8217;t be fast or easy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;You just can&#8217;t come into Canada and say &#8216;I&#8217;m going to stay here&#8217;. In other words, there has to be an application. There has to be a reason why the person is coming to Canada,&#8221; said immigration ministry spokeswoman Maria Iadinardi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And no, &#8220;I hate Bush&#8221; isn&#8217;t reason enough.  Damn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada doesn&#8217;t exactly want you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}