{"id":690,"date":"2013-03-21T17:27:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T17:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?p=690"},"modified":"2013-04-25T03:07:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T03:07:55","slug":"warm-and-fuzzies-canadian-mythmaking-on-the-10th-anniversary-of-a-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Warm and fuzzies: Canadian mythmaking on the 10th anniversary of a slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Matthew Behrens<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This past week has provided Canadians with a series of warm and fuzzies that, like most of this nation&#8217;s mythology, were built on self-congratulatory lies. From the breathless and ankle-deep CBC and CTV interviews with former prime minister Jean Chretien to the Globe and Mail&#8217;s front-page shout out to that most disingenuous of foreign ministers, Bill Graham, the occasion was the 10th anniversary of the 2003 escalation of the 23-year war against the people of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Warm and fuzzies: Canadian mythmaking on the 10th anniversary of a slaughter\" href=\"http:\/\/rabble.ca\/columnists\/2013\/03\/warm-and-fuzzies-canadian-mythmaking-10th-anniversary-slaughter\" target=\"_blank\">read more at rabble.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Matthew Behrens This past week has provided Canadians with a series of warm and fuzzies that, like most of this nation&#8217;s mythology, were built on self-congratulatory lies. From the breathless and ankle-deep CBC and CTV interviews with former prime minister Jean Chretien to the Globe and Mail&#8217;s front-page shout out to that most disingenuous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promote-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}