{"id":896,"date":"2007-07-02T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T14:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2007-07-02T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T14:13:06","slug":"out-of-the-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"Out of the cave&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it felt good to get a good chunk of painting work done on the house this weekend, it felt weird yesterday when I finally got a chance to check e-mail and surf around a bit. Normally, I check e-mail semi-neurotically, and have stretches where I wander past the same websites enough in a meandering circle that I&#8217;m surprised one of them doesn&#8217;t pop up with a message like, &#8220;Dude, you were just here. Nothing&#8217;s changed.&#8221; And with a house that consists of nothing more than electricity and water, the radio is pretty much my link to the outside world. <\/p>\n<p>So you can understand why I might have missed <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.newsobserver.com\/canes\/index.php\/canes?title=no_overlooking_francis_this_time&#038;more=1&#038;c=1&#038;tb=1&#038;pb=1\">this news<\/a> in Central Indiana.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/pictures\/ronfrancis.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Francis\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a Ron Francis fan pretty much since I started following hockey real close in the mid-80&#8217;s, and aside from the &#8220;what the hell are they trying to pull!?!?&#8221; trip through Pittsburgh, he&#8217;s spent his whole career with &#8220;my&#8221; team. I even, unknowingly at the time, saw his last game for the Whalers\/Hurricanes franchise in Columbus a few years back. I wish I had known at the time, I would have paid more attention to him specifically than to the rest of the game, which I don&#8217;t remember the result, anyway. <\/p>\n<p>Making the Hall of Fame is ridiculously deserved, and I&#8217;m glad to see he was recognized his first time through. Congrats Ronnie Franchise!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it felt good to get a good chunk of painting work done on the house this weekend, it felt weird yesterday when I finally got a chance to check e-mail and surf around a bit. Normally, I check e-mail semi-neurotically, and have stretches where I wander past the same websites enough in a meandering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Out of the cave&#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":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}