{"id":527,"date":"2004-03-17T20:08:04","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T23:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=527"},"modified":"2006-01-01T12:57:41","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T16:57:41","slug":"hockey-is-played-with-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Hockey is played with a&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span> p<a href=\".\/wp-content\/misc\/hockeyisplayedwithasticky.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:right;margin:5px\" alt=\"sm_hockeyisplayedwithasticky.jpg\" src=\".\/wp-content\/misc\/sm_hockeyisplayedwithasticky.jpg\" width=\"50\" height=\"40\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>ainting in the National Gallery of Washington appears to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald.ns.ca\/stories\/2004\/03\/17\/f196.raw.html\">depict a couple of <em>Dutch<\/em> people playing a game of hockey<\/a>. So, who have invented hockey? The Canadians or Americans? Was it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birthplaceofhockey.com\/\">Windsor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iihf.com\/news\/iihfpr3902.htm\">Montreal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowhockey.com\/article1111.html\">Great Bear Lake<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirabilis.ca\/archives\/001487.html\">Halifax<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchockeyhistory.org\/hockeyhistory.htm\">Houghton<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>I blame the Dutch for all this confusion. After all it was them, who brought the art of skating (cough) to the New World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A painting in the National Gallery of Washington appears to depict a couple of Dutch people playing a game of hockey. So, who have invented hockey? The Canadians or Americans? Was it Windsor, Montreal, Great Bear Lake, Halifax or Houghton. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=527\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"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=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}