{"id":2734,"date":"2009-07-25T22:34:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T02:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2009-07-25T22:52:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T02:52:20","slug":"i-totally-would-have-outbid-that-because-cannons-are-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/i-totally-would-have-outbid-that-because-cannons-are-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"I totally would have outbid that because cannons are awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just found out today that our local free weekly<\/a> was running a charity contest as an eBay auction. The winner would get to give the command to fire the Citadel’s noon gun<\/a> while in period costume,<\/a> among other things. I would have totally bid fairly highly on that–it would have been hilarious, especially as a gift for someone. <\/p>\n

That thing has often rather startled me–and indeed on one occasion, when I cruelly stopped the car right beneath the gun at 11:59 for a “chance to take in the view of the harbour”, nearly scared a weekend visitor into heart trauma.<\/p>\n

However the auction<\/a> actually ended several days ago, and closed for a ridiculously small sum. Apparently the free weekly isn’t great at getting the word out about contests.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the routine sounds like, along with tour guide narration:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just found out today that our local free weekly was running a charity contest as an eBay auction. The winner would get to give the command to fire the Citadel’s noon gun while in period costume, among other things. I would have totally bid fairly highly on that–it would have been hilarious, especially as a gift for someone. That… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","tag-halifax","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-I6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}