{"id":112,"date":"2005-01-19T00:24:40","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T04:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/19\/halifax-worse-than-death\/"},"modified":"2005-01-19T00:24:40","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T04:24:40","slug":"halifax-worse-than-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/halifax-worse-than-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Halifax: Worse Than Death?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2005\/01\/18\/halifax-washington-050118.html\">George Washington thought so<\/a>, as a 229 year-old letter which is about to be auctioned proves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the four-page letter dated May 9, 1776, he said the Loyalists detested their time in Halifax and preferred to die than to stay in the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately, the city has improved greatly since the old days. Why, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pieceofsky.com\/bnluk\/lyrics\/HelloCity.htm\">just ask the Barenaked Ladies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Well, I like it here. Mostly.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Apparently George Washington thought so, as a 229 year-old letter which is about to be auctioned proves: In the four-page letter dated May 9, 1776, he said the Loyalists detested their time in Halifax and preferred to die than to stay in the city. Fortunately, the city has improved greatly since the old days. Why, just ask the Barenaked Ladies.&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/halifax-worse-than-death\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-1O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}