Sunset-Retreat Ceremony,<\/a> which includes troop marches and drills, military music, the lowering of the flag, and the opportunity to meet mounted riders.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhatever Regina rhymes with, the city\u2019s name is preferable to its previous incarnation. When the Duke and Duchess of Argyle visited the settlement in 1882, the princess renamed it Regina (Latin for Queen) in honour of her mother. However you pronounce it, the town\u2019s former name – Pile of Bones – doesn\u2019t rhyme with F-U-N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s a joke I have heard many times in the years since I immigrated to Canada, one that Regina locals must surely be tired of. \u00a0\u00a0Still, every time I return to the city, fun is on the cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,78,42,6,26,14,16],"tags":[143,144,33,145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianbucketlist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianbucketlist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianbucketlist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianbucketlist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianbucketlist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianbucketlist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianbucketlist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianbucketlist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianbucketlist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianbucketlist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}