{"id":2714,"date":"2021-01-06T23:02:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T04:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2022-01-08T14:47:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:47:03","slug":"3-favourite-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2714","title":{"rendered":"3 favourite photos of Sir John A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians celebrate Sir John A. Macdonald\u2019s birthday this weekend. In advance of this special day, By George is posting three of our favourite photos of Canada\u2019s first Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2715\" title=\"Sir John A _4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_4-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_4-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_4.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Arms crossed &#8211; confident <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2716\" title=\"Sir John A _3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_3-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_3-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_3.jpg 437w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>A visionary <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2717\" title=\"Sir John A _2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_2-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_2-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sir-John-A-_2.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>With walking stick &amp;\u00a0fur lined coat\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Photo credits: 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>Canadians celebrate Sir John A. Macdonald\u2019s birthday this weekend. In advance of this special day, By George is posting three of our favourite photos of Canada\u2019s first Prime Minister. Arms crossed &#8211; confident A visionary With walking stick &amp;\u00a0fur lined coat\u00a0 \u00a0 (Photo credits: National Archives) Chris George\u00a0is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith,&#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":[35,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714"}],"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=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14407,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions\/14407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}