{"id":45,"date":"2005-03-24T21:58:05","date_gmt":"2005-03-25T01:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/wordpress\/?p=45"},"modified":"2005-03-24T22:01:54","modified_gmt":"2005-03-25T02:01:54","slug":"despite-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Despite of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>hings I found out while staying in Halifax:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Despite drinking more Hortons coffees in 3 days, the chances of winning a GMC Envoy in the Nova Scotian capital are about as slim as anywhere in the country.<\/li>\n<li>If you look in the direction of Darthmouth, you&#8217;re definitely not looking south.\n<\/li>\n<li>While it&#8217;s generally warmer closer to sea, it always appears to be colder in Halifax.\n<\/li>\n<li>You can not get lost in Halifax. Just follow the &#8216;one way direction&#8217; signs.\n<\/li>\n<li>Hotel rooms don&#8217;t come with free continental breakfasts.\n<\/li>\n<li>In any hotel: Don&#8217;t expect a newspaper on your doorstep on check-out day.\n<\/li>\n<li>They have pretty good Butter scotch pecan cheesecakes at the Citadel hotel, but if they are homemade, that is a different question.\n<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t expect <em>free<\/em> hotspots around the center of Halifax.\n<\/li>\n<li>The Halifax Public Library?  ? ?!  ??\n<\/li>\n<li>Scotia Square Mall is quite a sightseeing around noon. That is if you like <em>lots<\/em> of people.\n<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t look like a country bumpkin.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I found out while staying in Halifax: Despite drinking more Hortons coffees in 3 days, the chances of winning a GMC Envoy in the Nova Scotian capital are about as slim as anywhere in the country. If you look &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=45\">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":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}