{"id":537,"date":"2011-07-01T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/01\/game-canada\/"},"modified":"2011-07-01T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T20:17:00","slug":"game-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/01\/game-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below, an excerpt from the <a href=\"http:\/\/media.hollandamerica.com\/contestrules\/2011\/domestic.html\">Official Rules<\/a> for a current Holland America cruise line sweepstakes.  <b>My emphasis:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the potential winner is a Canadian resident (with the exception of Quebec, residents of which are not eligible to enter this sweepstakes), he\/she will be required to answer unaided <b>a time-limited, mathematical skill-testing question<\/b> by telephone before the prize can be claimed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, in Canada, you have to be <i>good at math<\/i> to win stuff.  Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>P.S.  Happy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada_Day\">Canada Day<\/a>, everyone!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below, an excerpt from the Official Rules for a current Holland America cruise line sweepstakes. My emphasis: &#8220;If the potential winner is a Canadian resident (with the exception of Quebec, residents of which are not eligible to enter this sweepstakes),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathishard","category-randomresearch"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}