{"id":413,"date":"2005-08-29T07:22:54","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T07:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=413"},"modified":"2005-08-29T07:22:54","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T07:22:54","slug":"picketsize_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/picketsize_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Picket-Size Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weekends ago, I roasted a whole pig as part of my wedding celebrations.&nbsp; I guess you could call it the end of our &#8216;Big Fat Wedding Tour&#8217;.&nbsp; It was delicious.<a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/raw_pig.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Raw_pig\" height=\"149\" alt=\"Raw_pig\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/raw_pig.JPG\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> For the past two weeks, I have also been walking a picket line.&nbsp; All members of the Canadian Media Guild have been locked out by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.&nbsp; The CMG represents me whenever I provide freelance contributions to the CBC.&nbsp; For background on the dispute, go to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbcontheline.ca\/\">CMG webpage.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Between the pig roast and all the goodies that have been offered on the picketline, my waistline is expanding beyond its usual bulge.&nbsp; While the lockout continues, I will blog about picket line food and my efforts to lose weight while on the line in a series of entries made under the &#8216;Picket-Size Me&#8217; subject heading.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m heading down to the CBC Building in Vancouver, where I will do a weigh-in and clip on my pedometer for the first time.&nbsp; Read more here by tomorrow morning&#8230;.or come down and see me on the line sometime!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/endthelockout.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Endthelockout\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Endthelockout\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/endthelockout.gif\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weekends ago, I roasted a whole pig as part of my wedding celebrations.&nbsp; I guess you could call it the end of our &#8216;Big Fat Wedding Tour&#8217;.&nbsp; It was delicious. For the past two weeks, I have also been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/picketsize_me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}