{"id":131,"date":"2006-08-15T22:59:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T22:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:51","slug":"more-on-curling-in-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"More on Curling in Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.mywebpal.com\/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&amp;pnpID=999&amp;NewsID=739261&amp;CategoryID=18323&amp;on=1\">It&#8217;s a start<\/a>!  Now, if only I can convince <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\">UVM<\/a> to start a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegecurling.org\/\">curling team<\/a>&#8230;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere are some interesting stats I found about curling the website of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curling.ca\">Canadian Curling Association<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Curlers in Canada<br \/>\n<br \/>872,000 people play curling in Canada<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8211; 487,000 (56%) are regular curlers (10 or more times per year)<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8211; 128,000 (15%) are occasional curlers (3-9 times per year)<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8211; 257,000 (29%) are socialcurlers (once or twice)<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat can I say, UVM? 872 000 Canadians can&#8217;t be wrong&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis blew me away, too:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Watching curling on TV<br \/>\n<br \/>3,573,000 Canadians watch curling on TV<br \/>\n<br \/>886,000 watch curling 4 times+ per month<br \/>\n<br \/>483,000 watch curling 3 timespermonth<br \/>\n<br \/>697,000 watch curling 2 times per month<br \/>\n<br \/>1,507,000 watch curling once a month<\/p>\n<p><\/span>3 573 000 is more than 10% of all Canadians&#8230;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf this piques your interest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curling.ca\/learn_to_curl\/about_curling\/history.asp\">this page<\/a> has everything and more (and even more) that you ever wanted to know about the history of curling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a start! Now, if only I can convince UVM to start a curling team&#8230;. Here are some interesting stats I found about curling the website of the Canadian Curling Association: Curlers in Canada 872,000 people play curling in Canada &#8211; 487,000 (56%) are regular curlers (10 or more times per year) &#8211; 128,000 (15%) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-of-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}