{"id":54,"date":"2005-08-15T10:34:17","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T10:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:46","slug":"hows-this-for-a-national-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s this for a national symbol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMona and I spent a great weekend in Ottawa so that I could do some research and preparation for my TAP class&#8217; trip to Ottawa in October. We visited many of the most important sites and I snapped a bunch of digital photos that I&#8217;ll be using as part of a chaptered podcast about our upcoming class trip.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of the things we saw at the Canadian Parliament that I&#8217;d never noticed before was one of the details at the peak of the archway surrounding the main entrance. Now we know that the beaver is Canada&#8217;s national animal. I&#8217;m sure many of us might think that&#8217;s a bit lame. A few weeks back, I saw a beaver scuttling across the road near our house here in Burlington. Not an animal that inspires admiration at first sight. Industrious? Sure. Clever? Maybe. Noble and awe-inspiring? Ummmmm&#8230; no.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSeeing this beaver at the Parliament, though, I realized that maybe whoever thought of using the beaver as our national symbol was thinking of it as a more fierce animal than we might think about today. Just look at this guy! Does he not make you tremble with fear?!\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/DSC00053.JPG\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/DSC00053.JPG','popup','width=1152,height=864,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/DSC00053-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"133\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"DSC00053.JPG\" title=\"DSC00053.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mona and I spent a great weekend in Ottawa so that I could do some research and preparation for my TAP class&#8217; trip to Ottawa in October. We visited many of the most important sites and I snapped a bunch of digital photos that I&#8217;ll be using as part of a chaptered podcast about our [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}