{"id":71,"date":"2004-06-14T23:00:54","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2004-06-14T23:00:54","modified_gmt":"2004-06-15T03:00:54","slug":"wow-that-was-surprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2004\/06\/14\/wow-that-was-surprising\/","title":{"rendered":"wow &#8211; that was surprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alrighty &#8211; the run went <em>really<\/em> well, and I feel great for the first time in ages. The calf is sore, but overall I feel really good. I managed to put 7.5<abbr title=\"kilometres\">k<\/abbr> on my shoes in 25 degree weather and stupid humidity without dying. <\/p>\n<p>I also took in the lovely protestors at the NAC this eve. I am assuming there were somy mucky-mucks there, as the nice, blue RCMP cars were everywhere, and every stairwell\/entrance to the general vicinity of the NAC was blocked by unmarked vehicles. The protestors made a tonne of irritating noise with megahorns, whistles, and chanting. I&#8217;d hate to have been in the restaurant down by the water, as it was a nice evening spoiled.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well, right to free speech and all that, especially with the election coming up.<\/p>\n<p>Ahhh &#8211; <em>all<\/em> the chief mucky-mucks were playing with them&#8230; err&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20040614.eldebateb0614\/BNStory\/specialDecision2004\/\" title=\"pulling each other's puds in the name of democracy\">debating<\/a> this eve. By all accounts, the master-debater (sic) was the Bloc&#8217;s rep. Well, they&#8217;ve always been pretty good at sniping, and really shitty at anything else (like, running the province). It&#8217;s good to see some tradition&#8217;s don&#8217;t die. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alrighty &#8211; the run went really well, and I feel great for the first time in ages. The calf is sore, but overall I feel really good. I managed to put 7.5k on my shoes in 25 degree weather and stupid humidity without dying. I also took in the lovely protestors at the NAC this [&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-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}