{"id":16528,"date":"2026-11-11T10:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=16528"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:21:29","slug":"remember-the-past-look-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=16528","title":{"rendered":"Remember the past, Look to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was standing at the RCAF memorial in Greisbach and it occurred to me the utter tragedy it would have been if Alberta separation had been supported. I haven&#8217;t spoken or written anything about this subject to date, but just this one time, because of the sacrifices and tragedies of the past, I think it&#8217;s important that we understand that the true beauty of humanity is our ability to work together and the true ill comes when we split apart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1304-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1304-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1304-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1304-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1304-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1304-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1304-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1304-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this day of all days let us look forward with hope and joy and, dare I say it, love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1305-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16532\" src=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1305-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1305-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1305-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1305-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1305-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1305-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1305-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was standing at the RCAF memorial in Greisbach and it occurred to me the utter tragedy it would have been if Alberta separation had been supported. I haven&#8217;t spoken or written anything about this subject to date, but just this one time, because of the sacrifices and tragedies of the past, I think it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16533,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16528\/revisions\/16533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}