{"id":591,"date":"2009-08-25T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=591"},"modified":"2009-08-25T18:51:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T01:51:34","slug":"omg-hes-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/omg-hes-real\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG, he&#8217;s real!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first weekend in Atlantic Canada found me walking the downtown shores of Halifax&#8230; taking random pictures and scouting out places to eat that were walking distance from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriott.com\/hotels\/travel\/yhzcy-courtyard-halifax-downtown\/\">hotel<\/a> (and finding Tim Hortons for the short drive to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smu.ca\/\">work<\/a>!). Lots of interesting boats docked, probably because the hotel is only about a block away from the <a href=\"http:\/\/museum.gov.ns.ca\/mma\/index.html\">Maritime Museum<\/a>, but this guy stood out from the rest:<\/p>\n<p><center>            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 341px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/random-photos\/theodore.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"Theodore the Tugboat, docked in Halifax harbour!\n\n(http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=591)\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/random-photos\/theodore.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/random-photos\/thumbs\/thumbs_theodore.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"471\"\n             data-title=\"theodore\"\n             data-description=\"Theodore the Tugboat, docked in Halifax harbour!\n\n(http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=591)\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_135352f0eace6cd2a3057ce84b767435\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/random-photos\/cache\/theodore.jpg-nggid03471-ngg0dyn-0x256x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"theodore\"\n             title=\"theodore\"\n              width=\"341\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Theodore the Tugboat! If you don&#8217;t recognize him from TV you can read more about him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphysonthewater.com\/theodoretugboat\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodore_Tugboat\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t walk around the corner, see his big eyes staring at you, and not smile \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first weekend in Atlantic Canada found me walking the downtown shores of Halifax&#8230; taking random pictures and scouting out places to eat that were walking distance from the hotel (and finding Tim Hortons for the short drive to work!). <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/omg-hes-real\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  OMG, he&#8217;s real!<\/span><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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-9x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}