{"id":8924,"date":"2015-03-29T12:12:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T18:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8924"},"modified":"2015-03-29T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T16:09:19","slug":"missing-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8924","title":{"rendered":"Missing Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1997 or 98, I wandered over to Bill Hole&#8217;s house to watch qualifying with him between the staff orientation sessions. Qualifying for those of you who haven&#8217;t met me mean F1 qualifying. I had previously been mildly interested in F1 during the McLaren Honda years, although it more of a keeping-track-to chat-around-coffee type of thing.<\/p>\n<p>And then,\u00a0for one reason or another, being it sucking up to the boss, a genuine interest, or just to be &#8216;different&#8217; from all my hockey-following friends I started to watch the F1 races.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/F1_logo.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8925\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/F1_logo.svg_-400x188.png\" alt=\"F1_logo.svg\" width=\"400\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/F1_logo.svg_-400x188.png 400w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/F1_logo.svg_-150x70.png 150w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/F1_logo.svg_-1024x480.png 1024w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/F1_logo.svg_.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first couple of seasons it was tough as I had an old VCR and generally resorted to getting up in the middle of the\u00a0night to watch the\u00a0European races. Eventually I got a PVR on my computer and it became a lot easier to record and watch qualifying and races. Since then I have watched religiously and the only time I have missed more than one race in a row was when we spent three weeks in Europe. While not a passion it was most definitely a hobby. As far as I know, Bill gave up watching the races years ago but I soldiered on.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;ve missed the first two races of the 2015-16 season. Huh. Change is weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1997 or 98, I wandered over to Bill Hole&#8217;s house to watch qualifying with him between the staff orientation sessions. Qualifying for those of you who haven&#8217;t met me mean F1 qualifying. I had previously been mildly interested in F1 during the McLaren Honda years, although it more of a keeping-track-to chat-around-coffee type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}