{"id":117,"date":"2007-03-01T18:24:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T23:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2007-03-01T18:24:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T23:24:59","slug":"wa-wa-wa-whiteout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wa-wa-wa-whiteout\/","title":{"rendered":"Wa, wa, wa, whiteout!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theweathernetwork.com\/weather\/cities\/can\/Pages\/CAON0696.htm\">Major snowstorm<\/a> hit Toronto today <i>and<\/i> there was a major (freight) train deraillement at one of the stations along the line to get home, so my company is putting me up in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontocentre.intercontinental.com\/\">shmancy hotel<\/a> for the night.  Woohoo!  Room service is on its way up as I type (peppercorn steak rare, &#8216;natch), and I am loving the view.<\/p>\n<p>I am 25 floors up looking South and West at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cntower.ca\/portal\/\">CN Tower<\/a> directly and rail yard below it &#8211; and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotransit.ca\">parked trains<\/a> that would have tried to get me home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookpro\/\">laptop<\/a> has a built-in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookpro\/gallery\/index5.html\">camera<\/a> with lots of cool filters on the video (I used the &#8216;glow&#8217; filter on the following images), and so what&#8217;s a fella to do while food is being prepared?  Well, I&#8217;m glad you asked&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/hotel01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/hotel02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/hotel03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/hotel04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/hotel05.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;choons on my iPod&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/hotel06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major snowstorm hit Toronto today and there was a major (freight) train deraillement at one of the stations along the line to get home, so my company is putting me up in a shmancy hotel for the night. Woohoo! Room service is on its way up as I type (peppercorn steak rare, &#8216;natch), and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}