{"id":212,"date":"2002-02-22T13:37:47","date_gmt":"2002-02-22T20:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/fun-facts-about-curling\/"},"modified":"2002-02-22T13:37:47","modified_gmt":"2002-02-22T20:37:47","slug":"fun-facts-about-curling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/22\/fun-facts-about-curling\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun facts about Curling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/sport.guardian.co.uk\/olympics\/story\/0,10308,654085,00.html\">Guardian Unlimited Sport | Olympics | Clean sweep: the wacky world of curling<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n? Although the stones do curl, the term &#8220;curling&#8221; is derived from the old verb curr (grumble) because of the noise the stones make on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>\n? The Canadian film <i>Men With Brooms<\/i>, about a local curling team, is due to be released in Canada next month. Starring Naked Gun actor Leslie Nielsen as a small-town team skip, it has been described as &#8220;<i>Rocky<\/i> on ice&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n? A curling rink in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was used as a temporary morgue for bodies recovered from the Titanic disaster.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian Unlimited Sport | Olympics | Clean sweep: the wacky world of curling ? Although the stones do curl, the term &#8220;curling&#8221; is derived from the old verb curr (grumble) because of the noise the stones make on the ice. ? The Canadian film Men With Brooms, about a local curling team, is due to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/22\/fun-facts-about-curling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fun facts about Curling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-3q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}