{"id":201,"date":"2010-03-01T21:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/2010\/03\/01\/shining-world\/"},"modified":"2020-08-07T04:59:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T04:59:06","slug":"shining-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/shining-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever I go skiing in Whistler, Canada, something about the atmosphere reminds me of the Swiss Alps. Breathtaking beauty all around. And for some reason I have, on multiple occasions, been mistaken for Olympic skater Apolo Ohno. Ha! I always take it as a compliment.<\/p>\n

\"Funky<\/p>\n

During my last visit to Vancouver, I discovered my all-time favorite pub name: Funky Winker Bean\u2019s! Who could come up with a more unique and fun name for a pub?\u00a0 Leave it to Vancouverites. And to my great delight, I discovered that KFC in Canada offers the most delicious vegan sandwiches. They were so good! Thanks to all the Canadian animal rights activists and their compassion-based work over the years, it is thanks to you that people can enjoy these kinds of vegan options nearly anywhere we go nowadays across Canada.<\/p>\n

\"Open<\/p>\n

Another reason I love Canada, oh Canada, is that a lovely publishing house in Montreal, Quebec, was the first to translate one of my books into French with their edition of my book Open Your Mind, Open Your Life<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0They sold it in both Quebec and in France, which was a big treat. Brought back memories of my childhood when I had a pretty good grasp of French (between about 2 and 8 years old). My friends in Paris told me it was an excellent translation, and well-received in France, so how could I ask for more? Gratitude to everyone who worked on the French editions of my books, especially to the brilliant Qu\u00e9becoise translator Jos\u00e9e Gu\u00e9vin. Vive le Qu\u00e9bec! Vive le Canada!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Olympics are one of my favorite events, and visiting the 2010 Winter Games in Canada was absolutely dream-like. I arrived in time to see the Olympic flame reach Vancouver city center and fireworks galore. It was stunning, the city did a great job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}