{"id":1446,"date":"2010-07-26T16:43:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T20:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2010-07-26T17:40:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T21:40:14","slug":"1446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2010\/07\/26\/1446\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation: And a One and a Two&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday afternoon, Spouse and I attended the <a title=\"Pop a Coor's Light in Rick's memory\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foothillsfarm.on.ca\/html\/rick_smith.html\">Rick Smith<\/a> Memorial Horse Show at Foothills Farm in Chelmsford, Ontario.  I intended to practice a bit at taking pictures of horses jumping over stuff, but I had made the rookie mistake of failing to charge any and all batteries prior to vacation departure on Friday night.  So confident was I that I was all powered up that I actually removed the battery charging apparatus from my camera bag for the first time in recorded history, in an effort to lighten the carrying load a little bit.  You can guess where this is going, I&#8217;m sure; here&#8217;s one of the six or seven photos I managed to take before the batteries rolled over and died.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"IMG_0557 by warwalker_2000, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/warwalker\/4831518649\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Up, up and Away\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4131\/4831518649_ce05183909.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0557\" width=\"270\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Up, Up and Away<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sigh.  Not bad for a guy who, in so many ways, demonstrates that he hasn&#8217;t a clue what he&#8217;s doing. The conclusion you may safely draw from this is that my camera is awesome.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"IMG_0672 by warwalker_2000, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/warwalker\/4832110386\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kayaking and Swimming at Bell Park Sudbury\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4085\/4832110386_ff911f59a1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0672\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kayaking and Swimming at Bell Park Sudbury<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The scene at Bell Park in Sudbury.\u00a0 Dear Teacher: this is how I spent the second afternoon of my summer vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday afternoon, Spouse and I attended the Rick Smith Memorial Horse Show at Foothills Farm in Chelmsford, Ontario. I intended to practice a bit at taking pictures of horses jumping over stuff, but I had made the rookie mistake of failing to charge any and all batteries prior to vacation departure on Friday night. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1061,1060,1062,1063,817,1059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446"}],"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=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}