{"id":2827,"date":"2026-06-05T08:57:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:12:51","slug":"the-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/the-chorus\/","title":{"rendered":"The chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A favourite part of my morning is reading international news sites. I&#8217;m struck that it hardly matters what&#8217;s going when it comes to the prevailing tones they convey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China: <em>We are all squared away.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia: <em>You just wouldn&#8217;t listen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">USA: <em>Let&#8217;s hope this goes into extra innings.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada: <em>Who thought that having housemates was a good idea?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India: <em>On your mark, get set, go!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brazil: <em>Life remains irresistible, though.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favourite part of my morning is reading international news sites. I&#8217;m struck that it hardly matters what&#8217;s going when it comes to the prevailing tones they convey: China: We are all squared away. Russia: You just wouldn&#8217;t listen. USA: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/the-chorus\/\">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":[55],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-journalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","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=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}