{"id":3854,"date":"2003-03-21T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2003-03-21T17:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2003-03-21T12:04:37","modified_gmt":"2003-03-21T17:04:37","slug":"shrug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/21\/shrug.html","title":{"rendered":"Shrug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remind me again about how Canada is such a polite country?  Oh, well, it was just the <i>French <\/i>Canadians <a title=\"Yahoo! Sports\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/news?slug=ap-anthembooed&#038;prov=ap&#038;type=lgns\">booing<\/a> during &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner&#8221; at the Islanders\/Canadiens game in Montreal, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>(The Islanders won, 6-3.)<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asmallvictory.net\/archives\/003010.html\">A Small Victory<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remind me again about how Canada is such a polite country? 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