{"id":168,"date":"2008-10-29T21:15:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T02:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/154-guilty-pleasures\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:21:09","slug":"154-guilty-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/154-guilty-pleasures\/","title":{"rendered":"#154 Guilty Pleasures"},"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\/2008\/10\/29\/154-guilty-pleasures\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I have often mentioned the challenges of running a small business. It has its tough moments!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>There are benefits&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This morning I awoke to 15 cm of snow AND no power in the house or office. The temperature was 9C in the office and no chance of warming till QuebecHydro&#8217;s power was restored &#8211; scheduled for early afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The last 8 weeks have been very busy at &#8216;Harry, Inc.&#8217; I gave <em><strong>strict orders<\/strong><\/em> for time off. Skis were waxed and I had the earliest start to the ski season &#8211; ever! The skiing was great.<\/p>\n<p>Power was restored by 2:30pm. I managed to start my work day later than expected with a smile on my face and a tired dog at my side.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/ski.jpg\" alt=\"Ski Gatineau Park\" height=\"268\" width=\"400\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcottawa.ca\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xcottawa.ca','xcottawa.ca')\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xcottawa.ca','xcottawa.ca')\" title=\"xcottawa.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcottawa.ca\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xcottawa.ca','xcottawa.ca')\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xcottawa.ca','xcottawa.ca')\" title=\"xcottawa.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XCOttawa.ca<\/a> skiing in Gatineau Park<\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I have often mentioned the challenges of running a small business. It has its tough moments! There are benefits&#8230; This morning I awoke to 15 cm of snow AND no power in the house or office. The temperature was <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/154-guilty-pleasures\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F10%2F29%2F154-guilty-pleasures%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":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"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=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6729,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/6729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}