{"id":35213,"date":"2026-05-16T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35213"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:16:53","slug":"they-could-be-talking-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/16\/they-could-be-talking-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"They Could Be Talking About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/14\/wisconsin-residents-seek-dual-canadian-citizenship-after-change-in-law\/89706834007\/?gnt-cfr=1&#038;gca-cat=p&#038;gca-uir=true&#038;gca-epti=z11xx33p004850c004850e1107xxv11xx33d--47--b--47--&#038;gca-ft=107&#038;gca-ds=sophi\" target=\"_new\">Archivists see surge in Wisconsin residents seeking Canadian citizenship<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One Friday in April, archivists at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay set aside all other work to tackle a growing backlog.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-two nearly identical research requests had piled up. All asked about French-Canadians who once lived in northeastern Wisconsin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, maybe.  But I am 12.5% French Canadian.  True fact.  Although I am slightly more German, it&#8217;s because of combinations of ancestors.  One great or great-great dropped the <em>von<\/em> on arriving to America, but everyone else has been an amalgamation.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I am looking for Canadian citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archivists see surge in Wisconsin residents seeking Canadian citizenship: One Friday in April, archivists at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay set aside all other work to tackle a growing backlog. Fifty-two nearly identical research requests had piled up. All asked about French-Canadians who once lived in northeastern Wisconsin. Well, maybe. But I am 12.5% French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35214,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213\/revisions\/35214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}