{"id":389636,"date":"2026-04-09T10:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389636\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:06:08","slug":"mark-carney-cracks-maple-syrup-joke-to-artemis-ii-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389636\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Carney cracks maple syrup joke to Artemis II crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Canadian prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mark-carney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mark Carney;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Mark Carney&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Mark Carney<\/a> congratulated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nasa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nasa;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Nasa&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Nasa<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/artemis-ii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Artemis II;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Artemis II&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Artemis II<\/a> crew on their successful lunar mission and invited them to Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201c I want to extend the invite on behalf of all Canadians to come to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/canada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Canada;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Canada&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Canada<\/a>. Certainly come to Ottawa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pointing to the viral <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nutella\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nutella;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Nutella&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Nutella<\/a> moment from the recent Artemis II livestream, Carney joked with the Canadian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/astronaut\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:astronaut;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;astronaut&quot;}\" class=\"link \">astronaut<\/a>, \u201c I just wonder, a lot of Canadians just want, one point of reassurance that the preference is for maple syrup over Nutella on your pancakes in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crew broke into laughter following the light-hearted moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crew member Jeremy Hansen gave his assurance, &#8220;Absolutely, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian prime minister Mark Carney congratulated Nasa\u2019s Artemis II crew on their successful lunar mission and invited them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[51680,61,60,8189,82,247],"class_list":["post-389636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-canadian-prime-minister","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mark-carney","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}