{"id":614,"date":"2014-02-12T11:55:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2014-02-12T17:36:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T01:36:45","slug":"a-speedskating-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/a-speedskating-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"a speedskating bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Womens_1500m_Speed_Skating_2014_1402136.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-637 aligncenter\" alt=\"Womens_1500m_Speed_Skating_2014_1402136\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Womens_1500m_Speed_Skating_2014_1402136.jpg?resize=389%2C389\" width=\"389\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Womens_1500m_Speed_Skating_2014_1402136.jpg?w=432&amp;ssl=1 432w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Womens_1500m_Speed_Skating_2014_1402136.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Womens_1500m_Speed_Skating_2014_1402136.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 85vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gerwin from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eindhoven\">Eindhoven<\/a> made a bet with me. If I can skate 500 meters under 1 minute and 30 seconds, he\u00b4ll buy me a beer. If I skate any slower than that, I have to buy him a beer.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Sven Kramer, the world champion, can skate 500 meters in 36 seconds.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We shook hands and pinkie swore to make the bet official.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>My time was 1 minute and 18 seconds, about thirty seconds faster than I was three months ago. That felt good.<\/p>\n<p>And to make it even sweeter, I now have this ridiculously gigantic 1L aluminum can of beer in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the biggest one I could find!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerwin from Eindhoven made a bet with me. If I can skate 500 meters under 1 minute and 30 seconds, he\u00b4ll buy me a beer. If I skate any slower than that, I have to buy him a beer. [Sven Kramer, the world champion, can skate 500 meters in 36 seconds.] We shook hands and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/a-speedskating-bet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a speedskating bet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netherlands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-9U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}