{"id":162,"date":"2014-02-17T17:29:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T22:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/?p=162"},"modified":"2020-06-11T09:28:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:28:32","slug":"get-in-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/get-in-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Get in the spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a hockey fan? Have you been watching the Canadian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/olympics\/canadas-mens-hockey-team-beats-finland-to-finish-round-robin-undefeated\/article16916101\/\">men&#8217;s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/sports\/sochi2014\/hockey\/2014\/02\/17\/canada_advances_to_sochi_olympics_womens_hockey_final_thursday_against_the_us.html\">women&#8217;s teams<\/a> make their way through the quarter and semi-finals?<\/p>\n<p>I came across a digital exhibition from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/branches\/rarebooks\">McGill&#8217;s Rare Books &amp; Special Collections<\/a> today which <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/winter-olympics\/index.php\">celebrates the Winter Olympics from 1924-2006<\/a>. Some of my favourite images were the oldest ones&#8211;showing the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/winter-olympics\/large\/winter_olympics_ol_w_1928_sc-book.jpg\">hockey competitions taking place outdoors<\/a>\u00a0and some <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/winter-olympics\/large\/winter_olympics_landry_1043-book.jpg\">early images of figure skating<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit though that I also liked the one showing <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/winter-olympics\/large\/winter_olympics_landry_187-pg224_225.jpg\">Canada beating the US 2-1.<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a hockey fan? Have you been watching the Canadian men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams make their way through the quarter and semi-finals? I came across a digital exhibition from McGill&#8217;s Rare Books &amp; Special Collections today which celebrates the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/get-in-the-spirit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}