{"id":32600,"date":"2025-06-30T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=32600"},"modified":"2025-06-30T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:36:50","slug":"july-1st-is-coming-happy-birthday-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/july-1st-is-coming-happy-birthday-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"July 1st is coming: Happy Birthday Canada!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HappyCanadaDayFinal-1024x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5063\" style=\"width:615px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HappyCanadaDayFinal-1024x288.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HappyCanadaDayFinal-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HappyCanadaDayFinal-768x216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HappyCanadaDayFinal-1200x337.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post featured a love song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With much love, today&#8217;s post is devoted to Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada is neither a \u201c<em>postnational state<\/em>\u201d (hello Mr. Trudeau), nor a &#8220;<em>51st state<\/em>&#8221; (hi Mr. Trump).  Indeed, it is much bigger and more beautifully unique than these two SAD visions of self-dismissiveness and antagonistic, provocative language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although far from being perfect, Canada has flaws along with glories. Contrary to other places, it is surely one of the world&#8217;s most peaceful and welcoming countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For all these reasons and beyond, Canada deserves to be respected, protected, deeply loved, and celebrated, summer after summer and all year long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, and Happy Birthday, Canada!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"O Canada\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ymVU4d1FpY4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"O Canada\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zwDvF0NtgdU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post featured a love song. With much love, today&#8217;s post is devoted to Canada. Canada is neither a \u201cpostnational state\u201d (hello Mr. Trudeau), nor a &#8220;51st state&#8221; (hi Mr. Trump). Indeed, it is much [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32600"}],"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=32600"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32610,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32600\/revisions\/32610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}