{"id":7429,"date":"2013-03-01T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=7429"},"modified":"2013-03-01T09:58:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T14:58:57","slug":"rideau-canal-skateway-closes-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/03\/01\/rideau-canal-skateway-closes-for-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Rideau Canal Skateway closes for the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7431\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/rideau_canal2_laurier_far_.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7431\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7431\" title=\"rideau_canal2_laurier_far_\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/rideau_canal2_laurier_far_-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/rideau_canal2_laurier_far_-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/rideau_canal2_laurier_far_-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/03\/rideau_canal2_laurier_far_.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rideau Canal Skateway, closed now until next year. Photo courtesy C. Miller<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The National Capital Commission has called a halt to skating the canal, until next winter, of course. According to this NCC press release on Thursday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The heavy wet snow of the past 24 hours has weakened the ice and with the continuing mild weather forecast it is unrealistic to expect the ice to rebuild to safe conditions and to resume the skating season.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>THE SEASON<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 The 43<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0skating season on the world\u2019s largest skating rink started on January 18, 2013 and lasted 42 days. Over that period, 38 skating days, (including a stretch of 26 consecutive days that overlapped with all three weekends of Winterlude) welcome more than 835 000 visits on the Skateway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As seasons go, this one was fairly modest. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadascapital.gc.ca\/places-to-visit\/rideau-canal-skateway\/ice\">According to the NCC<\/a> &#8220;<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The average skating season is 50 days long, but the record (set during the 1971\u201372 season) is 95 days.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully you were able to get out and enjoy some time on outdoor ice, while it lasted.<\/p>\n<p>And for everyone who is sick of winter, perhaps we&#8217;ll be looking at an early, mild spring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Capital Commission has called a halt to skating the canal, until next winter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[880,5388,4888,48,5621],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7432,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions\/7432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}