{"id":2350,"date":"2005-12-12T13:58:26","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T18:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2005-12-12T19:49:06","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T00:49:06","slug":"well-that-was-easy-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/12\/well-that-was-easy-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"well, that was easy, maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just did my citizenship test. 20 questions, two of which you <em>must<\/em> get right, three of which you must get at least one right, and fifteen non-mandatory questions. Pass mark is 12\/20.<\/p>\n<p>Seemed not very difficult, either:&mdash; who was the first prime minister, who can vote, when was the Charter introduced, when did Newfoundland &#038; Labrador join the Confederacy, when did Nunavut become a territory; that sort of thing. To think I spent all that time worrying about natural resources, the third line of <em>O Canada!<\/em> and Lieutenant Governors (sings: <em>Bartleman, Bartleman, Does everything a &#8230;<\/em> hey, wait a minute, just what can a <em>bartle<\/em> do, anyway?).<\/p>\n<p>It did dismay and astonish me how badly prepared some people were. About 5 out of the 40 people didn&#8217;t turn up, and maybe 10 people didn&#8217;t have the requisite papers. C&#8217;mon people, don&#8217;t you <em>want<\/em> to be Canadian?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just did my citizenship test. 20 questions, two of which you must get right, three of which you must get at least one right, and fifteen non-mandatory questions. Pass mark is 12\/20. Seemed not very difficult, either:&mdash; who was the first prime minister, who can vote, when was the Charter introduced, when did Newfoundland &#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[705,1254,1200,188,381,650,1161,593,199,365,1152,551,762,1071,184,547],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","tag-art","tag-bad","tag-canada","tag-citizenship","tag-fed","tag-ink","tag-paper","tag-pen","tag-peo","tag-red","tag-rim","tag-territory","tag-test","tag-tim","tag-time","tag-vote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-BU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}