{"id":330,"date":"2010-02-02T21:12:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T01:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/?p=330"},"modified":"2010-03-07T15:34:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T19:34:41","slug":"surfs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/surfs-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Surf&#8217;s Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-332 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"IMG_0018\" src=\"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0018-300x109.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0018\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0018-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0018.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chateau_Laurier\">Chateau Laurier<\/a> is an icon of Ottawa: it reminds me of a dreamier vision of Canada, romantic, heroic, and yet knowingly aware of the time. This photo, on display in the Chateau, spoke volumes to me: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Pierre Trudeau, all at the Chateau. It was 1969, and I was 16 and at school only a few kilometers away. Anyway, my visit to the Chateau today, all of 10 minutes drive from our lab, was for the official announcement of <a href=\"http:\/\/nsercsurfnet.ca\">SurfNet<\/a>, the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council&#8217;s Strategic Network on Surface Computing. Let&#8217;s think of the future.\u00a0 <em>Robert Biddle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chateau Laurier is an icon of Ottawa: it reminds me of a dreamier vision of Canada, romantic, heroic, and yet knowingly aware of the time. This photo, on display in the Chateau, spoke volumes to me: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Pierre Trudeau, all at the Chateau. It was 1969, and I was 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}