{"id":28,"date":"2005-02-18T00:37:25","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T04:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/02\/18\/alanis-morissette-i-call-her-janus"},"modified":"2005-02-18T00:37:25","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T04:37:25","slug":"alanis-morissette-i-call-her-janus-morissette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/02\/18\/alanis-morissette-i-call-her-janus-morissette\/","title":{"rendered":"Alanis Morissette? I call her &#8220;Janus&#8221; Morissette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a37'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">From the lonewacko&#8217;s blog: <\/span><\/font><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/saskatoon\/starphoenix\/news\/story.html?id=54642567-4f5c-4bfe-a87f-cb73be77cec8\">Singer Alanis Morissette becomes U.S. citizen; keeps Canadian citizenship:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The singer was among some 4,500 people<br \/>\nwho took the citizenship oath during a ceremony last week at the Los<br \/>\nAngeles Convention Center. But Morissette isn&#8217;t turning her back on<br \/>\nCanada &#8211; she&#8217;s maintaining dual citizenship. &#8220;I will never renounce my<br \/>\nCanadian citizenship. I consider myself a Canadian-American&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When it came time for the national anthem [at her<br \/>\n&#8220;citizenship&#8221; ceremony], Morissette said, &#8220;I wanted to walk up to one<br \/>\nof the officials to ask if I could sing the anthem.&#8221;<br \/>\nInstead, concertgoers at her Los Angeles show that evening were<br \/>\ntreated to an impromptu version of the Star Spangled Banner during her<br \/>\nset&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now, contrast that with the article <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/saskatoon\/starphoenix\/news\/story.html?id=54642567-4f5c-4bfe-a87f-cb73be77cec8\">&#8220;Morissette to headline Canadians at Expo &#8217;05&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> from just ten days ago:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Crowds will be singing &#8220;O Canada&#8221; with<br \/>\nAlanis Morissette and getting swept up in the drama of Anne Marie<br \/>\nMacDonald&#8217;s epic stories about the country in an elaborate national<br \/>\npavilion at Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Morissette will headline Canada&#8217;s gala concert, revealing<br \/>\nher new patriotic fervour. She wrapped herself in the Canadian flag<br \/>\nhosting last year&#8217;s Junos and it seems she does not want to leave the<br \/>\nMaple Leaf love-in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Nothing like playing both sides of the imaginary fence. I note also<br \/>\nthat the Yahoo report on this that was linked to by Drudge said she was<br \/>\n30 years old. I know better.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">See also the similar remarks from another celeb in<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolstoy.com\/lonewacko\/blog\/archives\/002026.html#002026\">&#8220;James Bond turned, now double agent&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"rgb(153, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Globalfund has not edited what is above. Remarks are from the source.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the lonewacko&#8217;s blog: Singer Alanis Morissette becomes U.S. citizen; keeps Canadian citizenship: &#8230;The singer was among some 4,500 people who took the citizenship oath during a ceremony last week at the Los Angeles Convention Center. But Morissette isn&#8217;t turning her back on Canada &#8211; she&#8217;s maintaining dual citizenship. &#8220;I will never renounce my Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}