{"id":1026,"date":"2023-06-15T09:45:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbaustin.com\/wlbott\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2023-06-15T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:59:48","slug":"destination-moose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Destination Moose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #1 for today’s destination.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moose Jaw, Sask, CA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Normally, WLBOTT stirs clear of international controversy, but this is a whole new category!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moose Jaw, Canada, and Stor-Elvdal, Norway, have been in a hotly contested competition for the World’s Largest Moose Statue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To give you a sense of the drama and passion involved in this dispute, a Canadian Broadcasting Company article offered this man-on-the-street interview<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longtime Moose Jaw resident Ron Mitchell was on his way to get a haircut Tuesday when he stopped to see Mac. “I think it’s ridiculous,” Mitchell said.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canadian Antler Update<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Luckily, Canada and Norway solved the problem like grown-up countries and developed a “moosarandum of understanding<\/a>.” [Although a fine article, it should be noted that the article has a moose-pun density of 8.7 puns\/cm2<\/sup>].<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canada .vs. Norway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Distance from\u00a0Edmonton, Alberta<\/strong>: 749 km
Distance from\u00a0Austin, Texas<\/strong>: 1,672 miles
Distance from\u00a0Santa Barbara, California<\/strong>: 1,753 miles
WLBOTT Status:\u00a0Approved<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stor-Elvdal, Norway<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Stor-Elvdal is the 262nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,318. (from Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #1 for today’s destination. Moose Jaw, Sask, CA Normally, WLBOTT stirs clear of international controversy, but this is a whole new category! Moose Jaw, Canada, and Stor-Elvdal, Norway, have been in a hotly contested competition for the World’s Largest Moose Statue. To give you a sense of the drama and passion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-scandinavia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}