{"id":1021,"date":"2008-01-10T09:54:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T14:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/skate-record-in-mexico-city-pah\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T09:54:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T14:54:47","slug":"skate-record-in-mexico-city-pah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/skate-record-in-mexico-city-pah\/","title":{"rendered":"Skate Record in Mexico City?  Pah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2008\/01\/10\/4764730-ap.html\">this article<\/a> about how Mexico City is trying to have a world record recognized for the longest conga line of skaters.\u00c2\u00a0 They only managed 225 skaters, which is rather embarrassing.\u00c2\u00a0 Their rink is also shamefully teeny, only twice the size of a regular hockey rink.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking this is a record that Ottawa could smash easily and forever, after all we do have the longest skating rink in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 How&#8217;s this for a rink (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rideau_Canal\">sourced from Wikipedia<\/a>)?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cleared length is 7.8 kilometres (4.8 miles) and has the equivalent surface area of 90 Olympic hockey rinks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those are Olympic sized rinks, folks, not regular rinks.\u00c2\u00a0 We could probably manage about oh I don&#8217;t know maybe 15000 people in our conga line?\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s if the conga line was a straight one, imagine how many people we could get if it zigzagged&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The NCC should set their sights on this one, it would be lots of fun I bet.\u00c2\u00a0 And we could put those Mexico City people in their place.\u00c2\u00a0 Who skates in Mexico?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this article about how Mexico City is trying to have a world record recognized for the longest conga line of skaters.\u00c2\u00a0 They only managed 225 skaters, which is rather embarrassing.\u00c2\u00a0 Their rink is also shamefully teeny, only twice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/skate-record-in-mexico-city-pah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[3],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-skating"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-gt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}