{"id":81,"date":"2008-09-11T22:28:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T06:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-09-11T22:32:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T06:32:15","slug":"008-completely-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/2008\/09\/11\/008-completely-irrelevant\/","title":{"rendered":"#008: Completely Irrelevant!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Currently listening to: &#8220;Girl Anachronism&#8221; &#8211; The Dresden Dolls<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I realize that I have once mentioned p\u00e9tanque a few blog entries back, which led to various comments\/questions regarding its validity as a sport, what it comprises, etc. So I&#8217;ve taken the liberties with Wikipedia; here are some facts for you. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>P\u00e9tanque is a form of boules where the goal is, while standing with the feet together in a small circle, to throw metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet (jack). The game is normally played on hard dirt or gravel, but can also be played on grass or other surfaces. Sandy beaches are not suitable.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P%C3%A9tanque\">Wiki, on p\u00e9tanque<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a photo of the World P\u00e9tanque Championships in 2006.<br \/>\nOoooh lookie, Canadian participants!<br \/>\n(click to enlarge picture) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/files\/2008\/09\/pentanque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/files\/2008\/09\/pentanque-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petanque.qc.ca\/\">Canadian Federation of P\u00e9tanque<\/a>, if anyone&#8217;s interested. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;this was, by the way, totally pointless: another bit of drabble brought to you by your resident madhouse escapee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently listening to: &#8220;Girl Anachronism&#8221; &#8211; The Dresden Dolls I realize that I have once mentioned p\u00e9tanque a few blog entries back, which led to various comments\/questions regarding its validity as a sport, what it comprises, etc. So I&#8217;ve taken the liberties with Wikipedia; here are some facts for you. P\u00e9tanque is a form of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390],"tags":[506],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-petanque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}