{"id":1066,"date":"2006-05-01T19:13:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T23:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2006-05-01T19:13:49","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T23:13:49","slug":"may-day-tax-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"May Day, Tax Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>hanks to CBC Radio One host Carmen Klassen of Main Street I was reminded of &#8216;May Day&#8217;, or what Europeans know as &#8216;International Labour Day&#8217;. The first thing that sprung in mind was the question if May 1st is an official Dutch holiday or not. I can&#8217;t remember. I think I agree with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrc.nl\/W2\/Lab\/Profiel\/Nederland\/holidays.html\">NRC Dutch holiday list<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">Labour Day (1 May) has mostly lost its significance in the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of other countries that do celebrate this <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/europe\/05\/01\/mayday.europe\/index.html\">particular day<\/a>. In the US May Day coincided with the big Pro Immigrant rallies <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/05\/01\/immigrant.day\/index.html\">held all over the country<\/a>. Ironic sidenote: The US State Department&#8217;s criticism on Canada&#8217;s immigration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2006\/05\/01\/usstatedept060501.html\">(evil liberal) policies<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Oh: and the Tax deadline is by midnight, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2006\/05\/01\/tax-deadline060501.html\">I read<\/a>. And &#8216;The Scream&#8217; (as prominently shown on that last link) does have nothing to do with tax day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to CBC Radio One host Carmen Klassen of Main Street I was reminded of &#8216;May Day&#8217;, or what Europeans know as &#8216;International Labour Day&#8217;. The first thing that sprung in mind was the question if May 1st is an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1066\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}