{"id":788,"date":"2013-04-11T18:26:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T23:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=788"},"modified":"2013-04-09T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T23:42:07","slug":"first-canada-now-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"First Canada, Now Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nutella.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-789\" alt=\"nutella\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nutella.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a>As my readers know, this is not simply a literary blog.\u00a0 I was on top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=622\">theft <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=692\">subsequent recovery<\/a> of part of Canada&#8217;s strategic maple syrup reserve.\u00a0 Well, a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/crime\/2013\/04\/08\/stolen_nutella_germany_what_do_you_do_with_five_metric_tons_of_stolen_nutella.html\"> similar band of thieves has made off with five metric tons of Nutella in Germany<\/a>.\u00a0 I suspect that when there are gatherings of sweet, viscous products the syrup thieves might poke fun at the Nutella bandits given the differences in the values of their hauls ($3,000,000 vs. $2,000), but I suppose the choco-hazelnut thieves can take comfort in the fact that they haven&#8217;t been caught, so far.\u00a0 It is tempting to be smug about not living in a lawless wasteland like Canada or Germany, given news like this, but one shouldn&#8217;t be complacent.\u00a0 It is always possible that some high-fructose corn syrup heist is just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my readers know, this is not simply a literary blog.\u00a0 I was on top of the theft and subsequent recovery of part of Canada&#8217;s strategic maple syrup reserve.\u00a0 Well, a similar band of thieves has made off with five metric tons of Nutella in Germany.\u00a0 I suspect that when there are gatherings of sweet, [&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-788","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\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}