{"id":2813,"date":"2026-05-15T12:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:04:40","slug":"head-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/head-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Head down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I understand how those of us living in Canada might not be mollified by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/us-immigration-visa-social-media-history-esta-countries-9.7012235\">CBC&#8217;s assurance <\/a>that 99.9% of Canadians won&#8217;t be affected by the USA&#8217;s proposal to require &#8220;five years worth of social media information&#8221; from &#8220;visa exempt&#8221; countries in order to cross the border into that country: This could be just the first step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prudent reticence is no way for a writer to live, but there you go. Loved ones live south of here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand how those of us living in Canada might not be mollified by CBC&#8217;s assurance that 99.9% of Canadians won&#8217;t be affected by the USA&#8217;s proposal to require &#8220;five years worth of social media information&#8221; from &#8220;visa exempt&#8221; countries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/head-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,93],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-conflict","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}