{"id":930,"date":"2007-07-01T23:02:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/01\/how-i-welcomed-canada-day\/"},"modified":"2007-07-01T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T03:48:09","slug":"how-i-welcomed-canada-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/01\/how-i-welcomed-canada-day\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Welcomed Canada Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly after the clock ticked over into Canada Day last night, I was the proud recipient of this:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to that lovely chunk of acrylicCourtesy of the new laser engraver at R & M Rubber Stamp<\/a>, a.k.a “the business Tiger owns”.<\/footnote> and the first place finish prizeWhich, were we playing for cash would have been 50% of the tournament pot, but since we would never<\/em> do that, is just the adulation of my peers.<\/footnote>, I get the satisfaction of being the first three-time tournament winner in the H.G.P.A.<\/a><\/p>\n

I should also mention that this was the best tournament we’ve had yet, in terms of the quality of play at the table. It’s remarkable when I think back to tournaments even just a year or two ago.<\/p>\n

And, even better than that, I received the lovely gift of being able to sleep in until 1:30PM today from my wife and daughter. While they were at a pancake breakfast and then celebrations at the Citadel<\/a>, I happily slept for a 10 hour stretch, sleeping the sleep of the triumphant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shortly after the clock ticked over into Canada Day last night, I was the proud recipient of this: In addition to that lovely chunk of acrylicCourtesy of the new laser engraver at R & M Rubber Stamp, a.k.a “the business Tiger owns”. and the first place finish prizeWhich, were we playing for cash would have been 50% of the tournament… 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":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hgpa","category-storytime","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-f0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}