{"id":446,"date":"2003-12-14T22:18:17","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T01:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=446"},"modified":"2003-12-14T22:18:17","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T01:18:17","slug":"canadian-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Dutch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>S<\/span>ome people around me wonder if I feel Canadian or Dutch, after I got the status of <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/archives\/000807.html\">permanent resident of Canada<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>My Dutch is getting worse with the day, as I notice in the frequent phone calls and conversations with Dutch relatives. My oral (Canadian) English is getting better (or has become better) since 2000, but the accent is still there. In my first months, I remember that the accent was one of the obstacles that kept me away from accepting or returning phone calls. Obnoxious if you think about it: communication is a crucial part of human existance.\n<\/p>\n<p>Do I feel both Canadian and Dutch then? No, not really and I think it&#8217;s offensive to call myself Canadian-Dutch. As I&#8217;m employed by a Canadian company, paying Canadian taxes and have become a PR, I might just as well call myself Canadian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people around me wonder if I feel Canadian or Dutch, after I got the status of permanent resident of Canada. My Dutch is getting worse with the day, as I notice in the frequent phone calls and conversations with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=446\">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":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}