{"id":1285,"date":"2010-12-01T11:52:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:19:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:19:29","slug":"554-assignment-spotlight-editorial-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/554-assignment-spotlight-editorial-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"#554 Assignment Spotlight &#8211; Editorial &#038; Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/554-assignment-spotlight-editorial-hockey\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Last winter we pitched a story on outdoor pick-up hockey in the Ottawa area.<\/p>\n<p><em>Why? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hockey is life<\/strong><\/em> for many people in Ottawa. And we&#8217;re not talking Ottawa Senators or even Ottawa 67s. We&#8217;re talking <em>beginners, kids, adults, retired pros, new Canadians, men, women<\/em> &#8211; many, many people are touched by the hundreds of make shift rinks in the region.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ottawa hockey Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/OttMagHockey.jpg\" alt=\"Ottawa hockey Photo\" width=\"336\" height=\"450\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hockey Assignment - Ottawa Magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many rinks are supported by the city but hundreds unofficially appear on ponds, rivers and in backyards. And where there is clear ice people will appear with hockey sticks!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ottawa Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.OttawaMagazine.com\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.OttawaMagazine.com','Ottawa+Magazine')\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.OttawaMagazine.com','Ottawa+Magazine')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ottawa Magazine<\/a> was very supportive of the story idea and approved the story quickly. Writer (and avid hockey player) <a title=\"Jamieson Findlay\" href=\"http:\/\/biography.jrank.org\/pages\/2198\/Findlay-Jamieson-1958.html\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fbiography.jrank.org%2Fpages%2F2198%2FFindlay-Jamieson-1958.html','Jamieson+Findlay')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamieson Findlay<\/a> wrote about the region&#8217;s pockets of hockey from the perspective of a player.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article and see the rinks in <a title=\"Ottawa Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.OttawaMagazine.com\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.OttawaMagazine.com','Ottawa+Magazine')\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.OttawaMagazine.com','Ottawa+Magazine')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ottawa Magazine<\/a> on news stands now!<\/p>\n<p>And in related news, if you want to hone your hockey PHOTO skills consider our <a title=\"Photographing Pro Hockey Workshop\" href=\"http:\/\/harrynowell.com\/workshops\/workshops_pro_hockey.htm\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fharrynowell.com%2Fworkshops%2Fworkshops_pro_hockey.htm','Photographing+Pro+Hockey+Workshop')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photographing Pro Hockey Photo Workshop <\/a>with access to media shooting locations at an Ottawa 67s hockey game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Last winter we pitched a story on outdoor pick-up hockey in the Ottawa area. Why? Hockey is life for many people in Ottawa. And we&#8217;re not talking Ottawa Senators or even Ottawa 67s. We&#8217;re talking beginners, kids, adults, retired <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/554-assignment-spotlight-editorial-hockey\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2F554-assignment-spotlight-editorial-hockey%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6331,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/6331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}