{"id":997,"date":"2006-03-02T23:30:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T03:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=997"},"modified":"2006-03-02T23:31:21","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T03:31:21","slug":"knife-snow-and-spore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"Knife, snow and spore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">R<\/span>emarkable news item: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2006\/03\/02\/kirpan-scoc060302.html\">the Canadian Supreme Court overturned a ban<\/a> on a ceremonial dagger. A school in Quebec was apparently wrong in telling a 12 year boy that he could not wear his dagger in the classroom.\n<\/p>\n<p>Once again a snowwarning in effect in The Netherlands. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu.nl\/news\/686516\/75\/ProRail_waarschuwt_voor_hinder_op_spoor.html\">Hey, it&#8217;s March, right<\/a>? Almost time to find a <em>terrace<\/em> in front of your favourite <em>cafe<\/em>!  (I remember a nice warm March 2000).\n<\/p>\n<p>Via Digg, I was notified of this <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&#038;q=spore\">Spore video<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spore_(game)\">Wikipedia on Spore<\/a>), which apparently is an old video anyways. While the concept is interesting, I keep wondering what the point is: it&#8217;s a sort of pacman and &#8216;destroy and ha-ha-ha&#8217; god-level game. Did hear Will Wright mention the game Populous in that video? <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Populous\">Populous<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarkable news item: the Canadian Supreme Court overturned a ban on a ceremonial dagger. A school in Quebec was apparently wrong in telling a 12 year boy that he could not wear his dagger in the classroom. Once again a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=997\">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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997"}],"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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}