{"id":605,"date":"2006-02-26T16:50:21-05:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T21:50:21+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/02\/26\/just-a-second\/"},"modified":"2006-02-26T16:50:21-05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T21:50:21+00:00","slug":"just-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/02\/26\/just-a-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a&nbsp;second"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Apparently Canada&#8217;s record 24-medal haul at the Torino Olympics would have been higher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/olympics\/stories\/headlines.shtml?\/story\/olympics\/national\/2006\/02\/26\/Sports\/coc060226.html\">but for a single second:<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Short-track speed skater Eric Bedard missed bronze by 4-1,000ths of a second in the men&#8217;s 500.<\/li>\r\n<li>Skier Kelly VanderBeek missed bronze by 3-100ths in the women&#8217;s super-G.<\/li>\r\n<li>Francois Bourque missed bronze by 76-100ths in the men&#8217;s giant slalom.<\/li>\r\n<li>Pierre Lueders missed bronze by 9-100ths of a second in four-man bobsleigh.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>For those of you keeping track, that&#8217;s four medals and a total of .884 seconds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>But frankly, as one who has no athletic talent at all, I&#8217;m in awe of the whole team, medals or no (with the exception of the less-than-inspiring men&#8217;s hockey team).<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apparently Canada&#8217;s record 24-medal haul at the Torino Olympics would have been higher but for a single second: Short-track speed skater Eric Bedard missed bronze by 4-1,000ths of a second in the men&#8217;s 500. Skier Kelly VanderBeek missed bronze by 3-100ths in the women&#8217;s super-G. Francois Bourque missed bronze by 76-100ths in the men&#8217;s giant&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}