{"id":2709,"date":"2021-01-06T17:50:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T22:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2022-01-08T14:47:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:47:33","slug":"2709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2709","title":{"rendered":"A favourite Sir John A. cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2710\" title=\"Sir John A _5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_5-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sir John A. Macdonald is seen in this 1873 caricature<br \/>\nas the heroic orator and leader Ulysses.<br \/>\nWith his remarkable face and colourful habits,<br \/>\nour first Prime Minister was the favourite<br \/>\nsubject for many cartoonists of the day \u2013<br \/>\nall who held an admiration for the man.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Photo credit: National Archives)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Chris George<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith, president of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cgacommunications.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>. Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ChrisG.George@gmail.com\">ChrisG.George@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John A. Macdonald is seen in this 1873 caricature as the heroic orator and leader Ulysses. With his remarkable face and colourful habits, our first Prime Minister was the favourite subject for many cartoonists of the day \u2013 all who held an admiration for the man. (Photo credit: National Archives) Chris George\u00a0is an Ottawa-based&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[35,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709"}],"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=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14408,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions\/14408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}