{"id":64,"date":"2005-10-06T09:25:12","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T09:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:45","slug":"hockey-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"hockey all the time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20051005.wpuckdropsHP\/BNStory\/Front\/\">A great story<\/a> in yesterday&#8217;s Globe and Mail about the Battle of Alberta. Roy MacGregor really captures the heart of this rivalry between the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonoilers.com\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/clubweb.interbaun.com\/grannies\/albertargcharter.htmhttp:\/\/clubweb.interbaun.com\/grannies\/albertargcharter.htm\">Calgary Flames<\/a>. It definitely took me back&#8230;.  Cool to see the battle entering the <a href=\"http:\/\/battleofalberta.blogspot.com\/\">blogosphere<\/a>, too\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, this being the morning after the opening night of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhl.com\">NHL<\/a> season, it behooves me to point out that the Oilers beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 while the Flames were <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">humiliated by the<\/span> lost to the Wild 6-3.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you&#8217;re reading this, you might want to take some time to explore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.ca\/hockey\/index-e.html\">this fabulous site on hockey<\/a> from the National Library in Canada.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nYou&#8217;ll also want to check out this unit on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianstudies.ca\/NewJapan\/hockeyunit.html\">Understanding Hockey\/Understanding Canada<\/a> from a Canadian Studies site we worked on a few years ago with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spottedcowpress.ca\">Spotted Cow Press<\/a>. That unit is written by my sister Heidi Jacobs, who also wrote this great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwpassages.com\/hockeylit.asp\">profile on hockey literature<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwpassages.com\">Northwest Passages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great story in yesterday&#8217;s Globe and Mail about the Battle of Alberta. Roy MacGregor really captures the heart of this rivalry between the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames. It definitely took me back&#8230;. Cool to see the battle entering the blogosphere, too Of course, this being the morning after the opening night of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-us-of-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}