{"id":2252,"date":"2011-12-11T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2011-12-12T23:56:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T04:56:26","slug":"nice-shot-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/nice-shot-ace","title":{"rendered":"Nice Shot, Ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started to walk home from the studio down the street, but heard music from the gym at the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Through the window I saw costumed heroes playing dodge-ball?  It was Ace (mascot for Toronto Blue Jays).  I left and came back with my camera.  Nothing like filming, as your camera gets hit by a ball&#8230;  at 60 frames per second.  I took many photos of his peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and banana birthday cake, which was arguably one of the best birthday cakes I have ever had.  Serious &#8220;yum&#8221;, especially when followed up by shots of vodka and pineapple.<\/p>\n<p>The 5 hour super-hero dodge-ball event has comes to a conclusion at 1am. With a smile on my face, I walk home and within a minute, I run into a guy that is looking for&#8230;   a &#8220;house&#8221; party. I&#8217;m talking about a &#8220;house music&#8221; party&#8230; in a loft, less than 1 block away.<br \/>\nHAH.<\/p>\n<p>1:45, walking into the party I run into (for the first time outside the tea shop) Marco and Juan, the owners of the establishment that I spend over a dozen hours a week at. The $20 cover charge is immediately waved.<\/p>\n<p>I just got home.<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to Ace, Jason, Juan, Marco and Michael for unintentionally setting up an epic evening.<\/p>\n<p>I am somewhere between Yes Man and Number 23.<\/p>\n<p>Btw&#8230; Ace sent me a link to the video of his recent wedding proposal.  Now THIS is how it&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a77jVCKxRhw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gdKn4pjp1cQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started to walk home from the studio down the street, but heard music from the gym at the corner. Through the window I saw costumed heroes playing dodge-ball? It was Ace (mascot for Toronto Blue Jays). I left and came back with my camera. Nothing like filming, as your camera gets hit by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[479,477,482,478,481,93,453,480,466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}