{"id":1314,"date":"2004-12-01T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/belated_thank_you\/"},"modified":"2004-12-01T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T16:35:22","slug":"belated_thank_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/belated_thank_you\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated &#8220;Thank You&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Canadians&#8217; apparent points of contention with President Bush is that it has taken him four years to make a trip across the norther border.  You can get a little sense of that just from the front page of their major news site.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what <a title=\"CNN.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/\">CNN<\/a> is running regarding President Bush&#8217;s speech this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush is in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today giving Canadians a belated &#8220;thank you&#8221; for helping Americans after the 9\/11 attacks. When the United States closed its airspace after the terrorist strikes, more than 200 airliners were diverted to airports across Canada, where stranded travelers were welcomed into homes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s what the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/\">CBC<\/a> is running (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Halifax on Wednesday to thank Atlantic Canadians for opening their doors to stranded Americans after the Sept. 11 attacks <i>three years ago<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You do have to wonder what the point is in giving a &#8220;thank you&#8221; speech three years after the fact.  Another excuse to talk about the &#8220;war on terror,&#8221; I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/belated_thank_you\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Belated &#8220;Thank You&#8221;\"><p>One of Canadians&#8217; apparent points of contention with President Bush is that it has taken him four years to make a trip across the norther border. You can get a little sense of that just from the front page of their major news site. Here&#8217;s what CNN is running regarding President Bush&#8217;s speech this morning: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}