{"id":831,"date":"2012-12-10T03:46:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T03:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/?p=831"},"modified":"2022-10-05T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:03:37","slug":"winter-is-here-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/winter-is-here-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter is here, sort of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally winter starts when we get our first doesn&#8217;t-melt-the-next-day snowfall, but living in Toronto I&#8217;ve had to make exceptions. This year I&#8217;m counting winter as starting today, when I first moved my summer hobby indoors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/radio-control\/1_tlr_22.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/1_tlr_22.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/thumbs\/thumbs_1_tlr_22.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"1745\"\n             data-title=\"1_tlr_22\"\n             data-description=\"\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_7cf1d1802c11b81db4fe838da3952716\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/cache\/1_tlr_22.jpg-nggid041745-ngg0dyn-0x256x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"1_tlr_22\"\n             title=\"1_tlr_22\"\n              width=\"341\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I made my first trip back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universalraceways.com\/\">Universal Raceways<\/a> with a new-to-me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.losi.com\/Articles\/Article.aspx?ArticleID=2218\">Team Losi 22 2wd buggy<\/a>, bought from a really friendly guy I met on <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.londonrc.com\/index.php\">LondonRC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t my video, but it does show how I <em>should<\/em> be driving, eventually:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"530\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJxbrml-9vQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today if I made it one lap without flipping the car over I patted myself on the back. Baby steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally winter starts when we get our first doesn&#8217;t-melt-the-next-day snowfall, but living in Toronto I&#8217;ve had to make exceptions. This year I&#8217;m counting winter as starting today, when I first moved my summer hobby indoors. &nbsp; &nbsp; I made my <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/winter-is-here-sort-of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Winter is here, sort of&#8230;<\/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":[9,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-dp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831"}],"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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2712,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}