{"id":168,"date":"2003-06-19T09:51:41","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T14:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sikander.org\/journal\/?p=168"},"modified":"2007-04-23T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T14:54:20","slug":"oh-my-niece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/2003\/06\/oh-my-niece\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh my niece!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we were supposed to bike from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2003\/baselineDominion.gif\" rel=\"lightbox\">Baseline to Dominion<\/a> and back. however, after a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2003\/cam_hat.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\">hat<\/a> and a washroom break, we decided to explore a bit more to the east. the bikepath we were following took us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tc.gc.ca\/programs\/surface\/bridges\/champlainottawa.htm\">Port Champlain<\/a> bridge&#8230; which takes one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/image\/18039224\">Ottawa<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/image\/18039209\">Hull<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>reached home more than 8+ hours after the departure time; Home -&gt; Baseline -&gt; Lincoln Fields -&gt; Breakfast@Wendys -&gt; Ottawa River Parkway -&gt; Champlain Bridge to Hull -&gt; Hull Riverside -&gt; Dinner@Harveys -&gt; Hull Riverside -&gt; Royal Alexandra Bridge -&gt; Ottawa River Pathway -&gt; Baseline -&gt; Home \/\/biking in pitch black through rows and rows of trees and foliage on both sides can get quite unnerving.. especially if a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2003\/firefly.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\">firefly<\/a> decides to suddenly light up in front of you..<\/p>\n<p>both ended up skipping classes but looking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/sikander\/biking\">back<\/a>, i think it was worth it. ottawa is beautiful. i&#8217;ve lived here since &#8217;97 but never had i seen these bikepaths, experienced nature like this, or biked to hull before ;)<\/p>\n<p>oh and another thing. no more carbonated drinks from today, the 20th of June, to September something something. promise!!111<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we were supposed to bike from Baseline to Dominion and back. however, after a hat and a washroom break, we decided to explore a bit more to the east. the bikepath we were following took us to Port Champlain bridge&#8230; which takes one from Ottawa to Hull. reached home more than 8+ hours after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":""},"categories":[23,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-23","category-biking"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XQq-2I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}