{"id":411,"date":"2011-02-15T00:57:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T00:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:36","slug":"another-day-in-the-life-of-the-director-of-canadian-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Another day in the life of the Director of Canadian Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my time here as Director, I&#8217;ve been interviewed as an &#8220;expert&#8221; on Canadian foreign policy, the state of the Canadian media, the Quebec provincial election, the Government of Canada&#8217;s apology to the First Nations, current events in Canada, and, of course, the expansion of Tim Hortons into the US. \u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s my latest foray in the Vermont media. \u00c2\u00a0Someday, someone will ask me about Canadian literature, right?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, though, I love what I do and am always happy to speak to media. \u00c2\u00a0The media people I have dealt with here always know a lot about Canada and aim to make their audience more aware of Canadian issues. \u00c2\u00a0Who can say no to helping out with that?<\/p>\n<p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wcax.com\/global\/video\/videoplayer.js?rnd=743724;hostDomain=www.wcax.com;playerWidth=504;playerHeight=284;isShowIcon=true;clipId=5566793;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=undefined;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;v=2;controlsType=overlay\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0038.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0038.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Peter Shumlin and me on Election Day 2010\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This photo is of Peter Shumlin and me on Election Day. He was nice enough to hold my Philip Baruth sign while I stepped away for a few minutes. Any Governor who has read Alistair MacLeod and knows him personally is a friend of mine and a friend of Canada&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my time here as Director, I&#8217;ve been interviewed as an &#8220;expert&#8221; on Canadian foreign policy, the state of the Canadian media, the Quebec provincial election, the Government of Canada&#8217;s apology to the First Nations, current events in Canada, and, of course, the expansion of Tim Hortons into the US. \u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s my latest foray [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-us-of-eh","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}