{"id":523,"date":"2007-05-31T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2007\/05\/31\/why_hockey_is_hot\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T07:56:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T07:56:10","slug":"why_hockey_is_hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2007\/05\/31\/why_hockey_is_hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Why hockey is hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to hockey, I&#8217;m a fair-weather fan; furthermore, since Dr. T is not into blood sports, we tend not to watch. Last night, though, he was away for his usual Wednesday evening of Scrabble, and I was hosting my usual Wednesday card night, the participants in which are true hockey fans. So I tuned in to CBC just in time for the pre-game chatter, and am delighted to present the award for best out-of-context line to the following gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He&#8217;s got really soft hands, a great imagination, and a bit of a mean streak. He&#8217;s hard to handle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My kind of guy.<br \/>\nTurns out the commentator was talking about some hockey player, but whatever. Regardless, however tempted I may have been to watch the rest of the series as a result of that line, I have decided I cannot watch the cup go to the Mouseketeers. I&#8217;ll just have to keep my fingers crossed that someday soon, nos glorieux will rise again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to hockey, I&#8217;m a fair-weather fan; furthermore, since Dr. T is not into blood sports, we tend not to watch. Last night, though, he was away for his usual Wednesday evening of Scrabble, and I was hosting my usual Wednesday card night, the participants in which are true hockey fans. So I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2007\/05\/31\/why_hockey_is_hot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why hockey is hot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}