{"id":200,"date":"2005-01-25T21:56:36","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T02:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2005-01-25T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T02:56:36","slug":"robbie-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/01\/25\/robbie-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"robbie burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/\" title=\"Ignore all the wares they're schlepping\">Robbie Burns<\/a> day, and I&#8217;m currently in Toronto. <a href=\"http:\/\/karen.deadsquid.com\/grog\/\" title=\"her first word was not &#8220;mine&#8221;\">McK<\/a> had pointed this out earlier, and when I called <a href=\"http:\/\/off.net\/~shaver\/diary\/\" title=\"Who's got time for updates, anyways?\">shaver<\/a> to see if he was around, he pointed it out as well, and mentioned that they were celebrating. <\/p>\n<p>Being the celebrating sort, I joined them at the <a href=\"http:\/\/york.thedukepubs.ca\/\" title=\"In the good part of downtown\">Duke of York<\/a> for dinner. We all had the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haggis\" title=\"It tastes much better than it sounds... no, really.\">haggis<\/a>, which was excellent and came with a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waitrose.com\/food_drink\/features\/winterideas\/aweedram.asp\" title=\"It's popular in France?\">wee dram<\/a>&#8221; as an added bonus. We got to witness the haggis being piped in, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbie-burns.com\/thepoems\/address.htm\" title=\"I'm thinking he was three sheets to the wind when he wrote this\">ode to said haggis<\/a>, and we were assured said haggis was duly knifed, as per tradition. I may even have snuck in a pint or two (hey, we were celebrating) amidst the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flags.net\/country.php?country=SCOT&#038;section=CURR\" title=\"Guinness isn't exactly crap, you know\">blue and white<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A super dinner with shaver, <a href=\"http:\/\/diminu.tive.org\" title=\"little, fiesty, articulate\">Tyla<\/a>, and a couple of their friends. Conversation centred on, of all things, comparing economic models to democracies and the stock market. I was a little bagged to say anything intelligent &#8211; not that I would have &#8211; but it was fun to watch some animated discussion and try and derail it once in a while by poking fun.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I come to Toronto, I like it a little more. Funny how supping with nice folks will do that.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday to the Bard! Be sure to raise your glass towards Scotland this eve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Robbie Burns day, and I&#8217;m currently in Toronto. McK had pointed this out earlier, and when I called shaver to see if he was around, he pointed it out as well, and mentioned that they were celebrating. Being the celebrating sort, I joined them at the Duke of York for dinner. We all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}