{"id":924,"date":"2005-05-19T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/05\/19\/the-best-you-can-hope-for\/"},"modified":"2005-05-19T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-19T16:26:00","slug":"the-best-you-can-hope-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/19\/the-best-you-can-hope-for\/","title":{"rendered":"The best you can hope for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdYeah,\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd I hear you say. \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdBut I can still get laid, right?\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd Wrong. For all that libidinous mystique promised in the press, most French-Canadian women have developed a way-cool form of xenophobia that makes them distrustful of anyone with an out-of-province licence plate. It\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds been hard enough to get them to hang out with us English Montrealers; imagine their reaction when you tell them you\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdre from the US. You might not get slapped, but you\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdll probably be blamed for a war or three. There\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds no respite if you\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdre gay either. The kings and queens of the village will just feel sorry for you, being from Jesusland and all. The best you can hope for is pity sex. &raquo;<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maisonneuve.org\/article.php?article_id=568\">Go Away<\/a>, by Martin Patriquin in Maisonneuve.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/mall.montreal.com\/mtlweblog\/2005\/05\/next-big-scene-we-dont-think-so.html\">Montreal City Weblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdYeah,\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd I hear you say. \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdBut I can still get laid, right?\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd Wrong. For all that libidinous mystique promised in the press, most French-Canadian women have developed a way-cool form of xenophobia that makes them distrustful of anyone with an out-of-province licence plate. It\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds been hard enough to get them to hang out with us&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/19\/the-best-you-can-hope-for\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The best you can hope for<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}