{"id":298,"date":"2019-09-13T23:51:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T02:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=298"},"modified":"2019-09-14T00:06:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T03:06:44","slug":"laughter-prescription-still-free-and-no-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/09\/13\/laughter-prescription-still-free-and-no-side-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughter prescription: (Still) free\u2026 and no side effects!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LaughterPrescription.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-299\" width=\"356\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LaughterPrescription.jpg 905w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LaughterPrescription-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LaughterPrescription-768x205.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 85vw, 356px\" \/><figcaption>You can smile (OK&#8230; only if you wish!)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi would like to share a deep thought by Mr. St\u00e9phane Laporte from <em>La Presse <\/em>that made her smile. This journalist\u2019s daily thoughts can be quite sarcastic yet always clever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"355\" height=\"201\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-1.png 355w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-1-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 85vw, 355px\" \/><figcaption>Thought of the day by Mr. St\u00e9phane Laporte                      <em>(La Presse<\/em>, Sept 13, 2018)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Jagmeet Singh could become Prime Minister of Canada, but he could not become a primary (or elementary) school teacher in Qu\u00e9bec&#8221;<\/em> (Bambi&#8217;s translation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u00abJagmeet Singh pourrait devenir premier ministre du Canada, mais ne pourrait pas enseigner dans une \u00e9cole primaire au Qu\u00e9bec\u00bb <\/em>(Mr. Laporte&#8217;s original French text).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/actualites\/le-clin-doeil-de-stephane-laporte\/201909\/12\/01-5241011-mon-clin-doeil-du-13-septembre-2019.php\">https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/actualites\/le-clin-doeil-de-stephane-laporte\/201909\/12\/01-5241011-mon-clin-doeil-du-13-septembre-2019.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This thought reflects the cultural difference in the conceptualization of secularity between Qu\u00e9bec and the rest of our country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, we can smile (and even laugh) at ourselves in any situation; of course, with all due respect to Mr. Singh (and his peers from all the other parties), to Canada, and to Qu\u00e9bec (needless to say here that Bambi supports its laws, including Bill 21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After reading this thought, Bambi felt the urge to be even more sarcastic than Mr. Laporte (it\u2019s Friday night ?). She could not help not to think to herself: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Justin Trudeau could hardly remain Prime Minister of Canada, but he could easily become a school teacher again<\/em>, even <em>in Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bambi would like to share a deep thought by Mr. St\u00e9phane Laporte from La Presse that made her smile. This journalist\u2019s daily thoughts can be quite sarcastic yet always clever. &#8220;Jagmeet Singh could become Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sackvillesmemorialpark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}