{"id":2053,"date":"2011-06-27T08:23:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T12:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2011-06-27T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T12:27:08","slug":"by-george-and-the-%e2%80%9cas-canadian-as-%e2%80%9d-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"By George and the \u201cAs Canadian as&#8230;\u201d Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ontario.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2054\" title=\"Ontario\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ontario-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ontario-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ontario.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To kick-off our week-long celebration of everything Canadian, <em>By George Journal <\/em>announces the<em><strong> \u201cAs Canadian as&#8230;\u201d Contest<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 We look forward to sharing our sense of Canada &#8211; and on Canada Day, this journal will publish (with pride) the top ten Canuck similes.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Complete the following: \u201cIt is as Canadian as&#8230;\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are a few examples to get your red-and-white-maple-leaf-blood pumping:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is as Canadian as sitting in a canoe and watching water drip off the end of a paddle blade.<\/li>\n<li>It is as Canadian as mindlessly taping a hockey stick at 6 a.m. in a cold arena hallway.<\/li>\n<li>It is as Canadian as sitting lakeside in an Adirondack and hearing the song of the loon.<\/li>\n<li>It is as Canadian as sailing on the Bluenose, cutting through the morning fog of the Luneburg harbour.<\/li>\n<li>It is as Canadian as eating a beavertail on the Ottawa canal in February.<\/li>\n<li>It is as Canadian as tapping the steering wheel while sitting on the 400 on a Friday afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>It is as Canadian as scanning an endless horizon of golden wheat fields and mile-high, blue prairie sky.<\/li>\n<li>It is as Canadian as wrapping a scarf up over your nose in a January blizzard.<\/li>\n<li>It is as Canadian as counting your sightings of roadside moose and brown bears on the roads through the Rockies.<\/li>\n<li>It is as Canadian as cracking your first smile of the day, sipping your first Timmies\u2019 double-double.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u00a0are looking for creative, spirited similes. Join our quest on our\u00a0Facebook page, via\u00a0@ByGeorgeJournal Twitter (#asCdnas) or comment to the <em>By George Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Chris-George\/100002185397592\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Chris-George\/100002185397592<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ByGeorgeJournal\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ByGeorgeJournal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To kick-off our week-long celebration of everything Canadian, By George Journal announces the \u201cAs Canadian as&#8230;\u201d Contest.\u00a0 We look forward to sharing our sense of Canada &#8211; and on Canada Day, this journal will publish (with pride) the top ten Canuck similes. Complete the following: \u201cIt is as Canadian as&#8230;\u201d Here are a few examples&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}