{"id":2089,"date":"2009-01-02T09:56:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T13:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2009-01-02T10:04:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T14:04:03","slug":"the-100-lunar-pound-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2089","title":{"rendered":"The 100 Lunar Pound Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>o my surprise, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2090\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2090\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/crw_4624-01-150x91.jpg\" alt=\"Some Coins in the Shape of a Nine\" title=\"Some Coins in the Shape of a Nine\" width=\"150\" height=\"91\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2090\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/crw_4624-01-150x91.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/crw_4624-01-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/crw_4624-01-1024x624.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/crw_4624-01.jpg 1108w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I found out that New Years Day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2009\/01\/02\/atlantic-storm.html\">started with a (white) bang<\/a> in Nova Scotia: In New Brunswick we got away with a couple centimeters and mainly the cold wind. Justice was served, I believe and I&#8217;m looking forward to a snow-free Winter. Uh. Yes.\n<\/p>\n<p>Talking about Winter: I hear that there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionetherlands.nl\/news\/zijlijn\/6108887\/Not-enough-ice-skates\">shortage of ice skates (nee, speed skates or &#8216;Vikings&#8217;)<\/a> in The Netherlands. At Christmas. Where are Bob Geldoff and his gang of crack-musicians and crack-singers to help these poor people out? On the other hand, there is something about skating (nee speedskating) on natural ice that is, as long as you watch out for &#8216;wakken&#8217; (spots of thin ice).\n<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s 2009, it&#8217;s a new year and there goes nothing above ditching those new year&#8217;s resolution and gain another 10 metric milligrams (for people used to the Imperial system, that is 100 Lunar Pounds). Change your science teacher can believe in! This year&#8217;s The Edge question is all about change too: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2009\/q09_index.html\">&#8220;What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?&#8221;<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1703\">Earlier on xsamplex<\/a>). If you&#8217;re bored for the next couple of days: there&#8217;s plenty of reading to do there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my surprise, I found out that New Years Day started with a (white) bang in Nova Scotia: In New Brunswick we got away with a couple centimeters and mainly the cold wind. Justice was served, I believe and I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2089\">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":[13,301],"tags":[302,361,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089"}],"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=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}