{"id":1007,"date":"2009-07-30T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2009-07-29T23:27:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T03:27:26","slug":"to-the-g8-boldly-go-gentlemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/30\/to-the-g8-boldly-go-gentlemen\/","title":{"rendered":"To the G8:  Boldly Go, Gentlemen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the August long weekend is marked by a few of the nicest guys you&#8217;ll ever meet in the following fashion:\u00a0 they gather at a cabin on Lake Nipissing to tell lies about the fish they didn&#8217;t catch.\u00a0 As an incidental to this purpose, alcohol is consumed.<\/p>\n<p>I have been fortunate enough to join these fine gentlemen in this noble pursuit many a year, though not so many a year as I would have liked.\u00a0 Circumstances and my own idiocy have combined on more than a few occasions to deprive me of the opportunity to join them, wet a line in the water, and share a laugh or two.<\/p>\n<p>This coming weekend, the fishermen of the G8 will venture forth.\u00a0 Alas, I will not be among them, owing to the previously mentioned idiocy and circumstances.\u00a0 I wish them every success on the water, every laugh around the fire, and every moment of respite from the mosquitoes they can find.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, guys.\u00a0 I wish I was going with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the August long weekend is marked by a few of the nicest guys you&#8217;ll ever meet in the following fashion: they gather at a cabin on Lake Nipissing to tell lies about the fish they didn&#8217;t catch. As an incidental to this purpose, alcohol is consumed.<\/p>\n<p>I have been fortunate enough to join [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383,46,615],"tags":[824,1204,823],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}