{"id":8758,"date":"2016-11-18T07:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8758"},"modified":"2019-10-22T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:33:08","slug":"the-pm-and-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8758","title":{"rendered":"The PM and his Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SophieTrudeau-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"sophietrudeau\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SophieTrudeau-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SophieTrudeau-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SophieTrudeau-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SophieTrudeau-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SophieTrudeau.jpg 997w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>One night Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie decided to do something out of routine and go for a casual dinner at a restaurant that wasn&#8217;t too luxurious.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When they were seated, the owner of the restaurant asked the PM\u2019s RCMP detail if he could please speak to the First Lady in private. They obliged and Sophie had a conversation with the owner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following this conversation Justin asked Sophie, why was he so interested in talking to her. She mentioned that in her teenage years, he had been madly in love with her.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Justin then said, &#8220;So if you had married him, you would now be the owner of this lovely restaurant,&#8221; to which Sophie responded, &#8220;No, if I had married him, he would now be the Prime Minister.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. \u2013 Thank you to our friend and regular contributor Dick Inwood. He will see that we altered his original joke to apply it to our Canadian reality.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie decided to do something out of routine and go for a casual dinner at a restaurant that wasn&#8217;t too luxurious. &nbsp; When they were seated, the owner of the restaurant asked the PM\u2019s RCMP detail if he could please speak to the First Lady in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758"}],"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=8758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8760,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions\/8760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}