{"id":868,"date":"2014-06-23T15:57:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T21:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2014-06-23T15:57:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T21:57:58","slug":"apologetic-canadian-zombie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/apologetic-canadian-zombie\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologetic Canadian Zombie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Well friends, here&#8217;s a zombie who has happily resolved his identity crisis.<br \/>\nI have come to terms with what I am.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I am a zombie.<br \/>\nI bite and devour people.<br \/>\nSorry about that, but that&#8217;s the way it is.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I tried to deny it for a time. Didn&#8217;t think this should be my nature. Wanted to join the non-violent zombie coalition &#8211; thought that would make me more pure, would guarantee my redemption.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Would you be surprised to learn that living a lie brought me no joy? Suppressing my urges and trying to be a nice zombie was no fun at all. Oh, there were those who applauded my efforts, who shouted loudly to remain strong. I tried to convince myself that this lonely existence was the upright path. But I was miserable, envious of others I saw who lapsed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Then with the dawning of a new day, I surrendered to the craving for gore. I slunk through the shadows lunging at prey. I bit openly. I feasted wantonly. One human, a fellow zombie who had received a cure, tried to shame me. She had endured hunger and found redemption. Her rebukes cut me. Had I surrendered too willingly after all? Why this unease just when I was having fun?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Like is slowly expanding cloud of gas, realization crept over me. I am Canadian. I am polite. <a title=\"polite Canadians\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zendixie.com\/canada-for-beginners-why-are-canadians-so-polite.html\" target=\"_blank\">I am apologetic even when others bump me<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 No wonder I was conflicted playing the badass zombie. For the rest of the game it&#8217;s going to be, &#8220;Excuse me, may I #bite you? Sorry!&#8221; and, &#8220;Thank you; your flesh is most delicious.&#8221;\u00a0 I am the polite, Apologetic Canadian Zombie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well friends, here&#8217;s a zombie who has happily resolved his identity crisis. I have come to terms with what I am. I am a zombie. I bite and devour people. Sorry about that, but that&#8217;s the way it is. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/apologetic-canadian-zombie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xsA3-e0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}