{"id":2629,"date":"2009-02-09T17:54:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T22:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2009-02-09T17:54:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T22:54:25","slug":"how-to-win-friends-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-win-friends-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to win friends in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A principal losing his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/584771\" target=\"_blank\">principles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A New Brunswick principal who eliminated O Canada at the start or the school day says he is considering his future in teaching.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A euphemistic understatement from one whose extravagant politically correct imprudence has severely limited his teaching career choices in our home and native land.<\/p>\n<p>What a twerp.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A New Brunswick principal who eliminated O Canada at the start or the school day says he is considering his future in teaching.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CBC-TV, Erik Millett says his decision to stop the anthem at the start of the school day was taken out of context.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I received probably over 2,000 emails, most of them hurling abuse at me, saying everything that I should be at the end of a bayonet, I should be shipped out of the country, I should be put on the front lines with the Taliban,&#8221; he said in a broadcast interview with CBC today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I bore a very heavy price for something that I think was very, very misrepresented in the media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Millett could not be reached for additional comment.<\/p>\n<p>The principal of Belleisle Elementary School in Springfield, near Saint John, has said he stopped the anthem after receiving complaints from two parents who objected to it on religious grounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes the Canadian national anthem mentions God: get over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A principal losing his principles: A New Brunswick principal who eliminated O Canada at the start or the school day says he is considering his future in teaching. A euphemistic understatement from one whose extravagant politically correct imprudence has severely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-win-friends-in-canada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[2267],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}