{"id":692,"date":"2012-12-27T22:25:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T03:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=692"},"modified":"2012-12-27T22:25:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T03:25:25","slug":"rest-easy-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Rest Easy, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-699\" alt=\"saplines\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/saplines.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>Well, I somehow managed <a title=\"Sorry I Didn\u2019t Get to This Sooner\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=622\">last time<\/a>, but now that the strategic maple syrup reserve thieves <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/headlines\/2012\/12\/thieves-arrested-after-stealing-6-million-pounds-of-canadian-maple-syrup\/\">have been brought to justice<\/a>, I have been unable to find a single news story about it that doesn&#8217;t use at least one pun. \u00a0But, after all, the situation is pretty sweet. \u00a0And it could have been a sticky situation for Canada. \u00a0I suppose I&#8217;d have to be quite the sap to deny giddy pancake lovers their puns. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know what will happen to the thieves in question &#8211; knowing how important maple syrup is to Canadians they might find themselves taken to a shack in the country and boiled for hours on end. \u00a0Still, I wonder what kind of sophisticated pipeline the thieves might have used to get their ill-gotten gains to the black market &#8211; possibly one made of blue tubing that snaked for miles\u00a0through\u00a0the forest. \u00a0But let&#8217;s not start in on any saccharine platitudes about how great this all is, or even Acer Saccharum ones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I somehow managed last time, but now that the strategic maple syrup reserve thieves have been brought to justice, I have been unable to find a single news story about it that doesn&#8217;t use at least one pun. \u00a0But, after all, the situation is pretty sweet. \u00a0And it could have been a sticky situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}