{"id":799,"date":"2011-01-05T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=799"},"modified":"2011-01-05T11:14:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:14:51","slug":"ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/01\/05\/ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love to skate. During the winter, I drive around assessing frozen ponds, streams and puddles for &#8220;skatability.&#8221; You&#8217;ve seen the old farmer driving a pick up truck at about 20 mph so he can check out what&#8217;s happening in every barnyard he passes&#8230;well, I&#8217;m the how&#8217;s-the-ice-looking version of that farmer.<\/p>\n<p>Every few days, I&#8217;ve been checking the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadascapital.gc.ca\/bins\/ncc_web_content_page.asp?cid=16297-16299-10080-10081&amp;lang=1&amp;bhcp=1\"> Rideau Canal Skateway<\/a> website to see if the ice is open (it&#8217;s not yet). The website also has details about Winterlude and other activities on the 7.8 kilometer skateway. If you&#8217;ve never made it to Ottawa to skate the canal, you should plan on a visit&#8211;even if you don&#8217;t skate.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s world class skating. Check out Yu-Na Kim, who broke the women&#8217;s scoring record last year during the World Championships. She has it all&#8211;grace, strength and charm.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"288\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_-xwx-Z3ijc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_-xwx-Z3ijc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to skate. During the winter, I drive around assessing frozen ponds, streams and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5388,5389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}