{"id":62174,"date":"2013-11-06T13:42:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=62174"},"modified":"2013-11-06T12:57:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:57:01","slug":"o-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/o-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"O Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/parliamentlibrary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62175\" alt=\"parliamentlibrary\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/parliamentlibrary.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/parliamentlibrary.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/parliamentlibrary-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While things may have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2013\/11\/05\/advice-for-rob-ford-from-parliament-hill-seek-help\/\" target=\"_blank\">tense around Parliament Hill<\/a> in the last day, let us take a moment to appreciate something lovely: the neo-Gothic wonder that is Canada\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2013\/05\/14\/cool-bookish-places-the-library-of-parliament-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">Library of Parliament<\/a>. Designed by Thomas Fuller and Chilion Jones, the 1876 structure is not open to the general public, but is portrayed on the Canadian ten-dollar note.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Canadian_Library_of_Parliament_Ottawa-interior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62177\" alt=\"Canadian_Library_of_Parliament_Ottawa-interior\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Canadian_Library_of_Parliament_Ottawa-interior.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Canadian_Library_of_Parliament_Ottawa-interior.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Canadian_Library_of_Parliament_Ottawa-interior-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While things may have been tense around Parliament Hill in the last day, let us take a moment to appreciate something lovely: the neo-Gothic wonder that is Canada\u2019s Library of Parliament. Designed by Thomas Fuller and Chilion Jones, the 1876 structure is not open to the general public, but is portrayed on the Canadian ten-dollar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[1432,12155,2426,11285],"class_list":["post-62174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-canada","tag-parliamentary-library","tag-politics","tag-rob-ford"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>O Canada by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 6, 2013 \u2013 While things may have been tense around Parliament Hill in the last day, let us take a moment to appreciate something lovely: the neo-Gothic wonder that\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/o-canada\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"O Canada by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"November 6, 2013 \u2013 While things may have been tense around Parliament Hill in the last day, let us take a moment to appreciate something lovely: the neo-Gothic wonder that\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/o-canada\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-11-06T18:42:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/parliamentlibrary.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"894\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/o-canada\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/o-canada\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\"},\"headline\":\"O Canada\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-11-06T18:42:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/o-canada\/\"},\"wordCount\":59,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/o-canada\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/parliamentlibrary.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Canada\",\"Parliamentary Library\",\"politics\",\"Rob Ford\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Arts &amp; 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