{"id":1403,"date":"2007-02-02T20:38:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T00:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2007-10-14T22:17:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T01:17:48","slug":"not-another-groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Not another groundhog day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>his is the future speaking: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/nova-scotia\/story\/2007\/02\/02\/wiarton-willie.html\">Shubenacadie Sam<\/a> predicted that Spring will come early this year. Live from the <a href=\"http:\/\/wildlifepark.gov.ns.ca\/animals\/index.asp?show=groundhog\">Shubenacadie Wildlife Park<\/a>. Oh wait, they don&#8217;t do frequent updates I guess. Their loss. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trurodaily.com\/index.cfm?sid=7766&#038;sc=68\">Cuteness<\/a> at the local newspaper&#8217;s website.\n<\/p>\n<p>The premier of NS officially announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.ns.ca\/news\/details.asp?id=20070202001\">Halifax is going to host the 2011 Winter Games<\/a>, which means that the Central Nova bid (Truro and environs [Hub Nova]) did not make it. Subtle twist to the plot is that most likely Wentworth is going to host the specific skiing games: I think the winter sport town also played an important part of Hub Nova&#8217;s bid.\n<\/p>\n<p>David Suzuki was in town and I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if his visit to the local school attracted lots of traffic and lots of buzz. A tiny fragment of this news can (once again) be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/nova-scotia\/story\/2007\/02\/02\/suzuki-hfx.html\">found at the CBCs<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t miss the endless re-runs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107048\/\">&#8216;Groundhog day&#8217;<\/a>. I bet it will be on too many channels<sup>1, 2<\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><sup>1<\/sup> Actually, I might be wrong today. Good god. That movie should be forbidden stuff. <br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup> Since it has been years ago I watched this movie, I should consider renting it one of these days.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the future speaking: Shubenacadie Sam predicted that Spring will come early this year. Live from the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park. Oh wait, they don&#8217;t do frequent updates I guess. Their loss. Cuteness at the local newspaper&#8217;s website. The premier &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1403\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[120,139,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}