{"id":8112,"date":"2010-11-19T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=8112"},"modified":"2010-11-22T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T12:34:38","slug":"a-reason-not-to-move-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/19\/a-reason-not-to-move-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reason Not to Move to Canada?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since starting blogging I have made a number of very good friends and often times get to meet these folks in person. The other benefit (?) is that I occasionally receive unsolicited gifts in the mail. Google sent me a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/google-recruiting-volunteers-to-provide-nexus-support-free-phones\/\">very cool Nexus Phone<\/a> and a coffee mug. Once I even got a box of <a href=\"http:\/\/hugeidahopotato.com\/\">40 count potatoes<\/a> (the source of all potato jokes&#8230; how big was it?&#8230;) from your favorite Idaho internet <a href=\"http:\/\/niftymarketing.com\/\">marketer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in the mail, this Mountie Hat showed up. Obviously a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canuckseo.com\/\">Canuck reader<\/a> was trying to convince me that while there are possibly good <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/google-places-another-reason-to-move-to-canada-duplicate-listing-removal\/\">reasons to move to Canada<\/a> there are also reasons not to. To see why &#8230;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mountie-mike-5201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8114\" title=\"mountie-mike-520\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mountie-mike-5201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mountie-mike-5201.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mountie-mike-5201-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mountie-mike-5201-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since starting blogging I have made a number of very good friends and often times get to meet these folks in person. The other benefit (?) is that I occasionally receive unsolicited gifts in the mail. Google sent me a\u00a0very cool Nexus Phone and a coffee mug. Once I even got a box of 40 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8112"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8227,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}