{"id":496,"date":"2003-09-15T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=496"},"modified":"2003-09-15T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-15T12:20:00","slug":"what-a-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-09\/496-what-a-weekend-2","title":{"rendered":"What a weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m back from my weekend trip to Plattsburgh, New York, where my younger brother was playing with the The <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www3.sympatico.ca\/pd.storms\/index.htm\">Concert Band of Cobourg<\/a>, the Band of Her Majesty\u2019s Royal Marines Association &#151; Ontario, in the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.battleofplattsburgh.com\">Battle of Plattsburgh<\/a> Ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p><!--more See pretty pictures from The Battle of Plattsburgh...--><b>The Battle of Plattsburgh<\/b><br \/><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/dailyphotos\/091403.jpg\" ALT=\"FIRE!\"><br \/><b>FIRE!<\/b><br \/><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/dailyphotos\/091503.jpg\" ALT=\"We must battle to save our picnic table!\"><br \/>We must battle to save our picnic table!<br \/><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/dailyphotos\/091303.jpg\" ALT=\"See the brand new 1814 model Ford Mini-Van...\"><br \/>See the brand new 1814 model Ford Mini-Van&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My older brother and I actually left town around 10:00 pm on Thursday night. Then, as we were travelling up the DVP, I suddenly remembered that I had <b>left the water on<\/b> at home! We turned around and went 40 km back to my house and then got back on the road again! <b>Sheeeeeeesh!<\/b> It was around one o&#8217;clock in the morning when we showed up at my younger brother&#8217;s house&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At 6:00 am, we had to get up, get showered, get dressed, get breakfast, and get out of the house by 7:15 in order to meet the buses in Cobourg by eight. My younger brother was travelling with the band on their bus, and we were part of the &#8220;Follow the Band&#8221; tour on another bus.<\/p>\n<p>And to make the story a long weekend shorter, I spent most of the weekend sitting, or standing, or eating, or shopping. I&#8217;m pooped, I&#8217;m at work, and that&#8217;s about all there is to say about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m back from my weekend trip to Plattsburgh, New York, where my younger brother was playing with the The Concert Band of Cobourg, the Band of Her Majesty\u2019s Royal Marines Association &#151; Ontario, in the Battle of Plattsburgh Ceremonies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}