{"id":177,"date":"2008-05-01T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/01\/omg-omg\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T20:02:00","slug":"omg-omg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/01\/omg-omg\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG OMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just met <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trevor_Linden\">Trevor Linden<\/a>, Vancouver Canuck and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/theprovince\/news\/story.html?id=be6afbaa-8afc-4e48-bcef-5169466865f3&amp;k=12636\">genuine local hero<\/a>. I shook his hand and he signed an autograph for my friend&#8217;s son, who is called&#8230; Linden. (Yes, his dad named him after a hockey player).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SBpFxlE35OI\/AAAAAAAAANE\/1wRkseBAYlM\/s320\/IMG_2868.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/>TL: &#8220;How do you spell that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">CAE: &#8220;Well, he&#8217;s named after you&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Seriously. This was our actual conversation).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Look at all those grey hairs I have! That&#8217;s the building I work in behind us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SBspd1E35QI\/AAAAAAAAANU\/BLG80dchoAo\/s1600-h\/Linden+009.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SBspd1E35QI\/AAAAAAAAANU\/BLG80dchoAo\/s320\/Linden+009.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were lots of other celebs there, including two Olympic medalists. Pretty much everyone ignored them and mobbed Linden instead. Welcome to Vancouver!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>My friend Dr. Spandex was more organised than me and brought his jersey to be signed.<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SBsp7lE35SI\/AAAAAAAAANk\/87m_mIVHJx8\/s1600-h\/Linden+003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SBsp7lE35SI\/AAAAAAAAANk\/87m_mIVHJx8\/s320\/Linden+003.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SBspeVE35RI\/AAAAAAAAANc\/1vJV5-1xDH0\/s1600-h\/Linden+010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SBspeVE35RI\/AAAAAAAAANc\/1vJV5-1xDH0\/s320\/Linden+010.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sweet!<\/p>\n<p>Dr. S. also has an iPhone (the first one I&#8217;ve seen) and is therefore officially the coolest person I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just met Trevor Linden, Vancouver Canuck and genuine local hero. I shook his hand and he signed an autograph for my friend&#8217;s son, who is called&#8230; Linden. (Yes, his dad named him after a hockey player). TL: &#8220;How do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/01\/omg-omg\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,19,35,37,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embarrassing-fan-girl","category-personal","category-photos","category-sport","category-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}