{"id":963,"date":"2011-08-23T19:03:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T02:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdhive.org\/glob\/?p=963"},"modified":"2012-05-25T20:46:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T03:46:02","slug":"to-sudbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"To Sudbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2011\/08\/23<\/p>\n<p>Another short day, but it&#8217;s amazing what a difference a good sleep makes. I felt really good today and the trip seemed much shorter. Must remember to sleep more.<\/p>\n<p>The only significant stop was in the town of Bruce Mines, where they had a small copper mine tour I wanted to take in.\u00a0 Unfortunately it was closed due to vandalism, so I settled for the museum.\u00a0 Decent collection for a small town museum, and this unexpected highlight: they played a working wax cylinder record for me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/d20110823_0050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/d20110823_0050_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"d20110823_0050\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I never expected to see one of these beasts in working order.\u00a0 Sound quality was much better than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>In Sudbury, I hoped to take in the local mine tour as well, but I arrived too late. Will have to do in the morning.\u00a0 But I got a photo of Canada&#8217;s least convenient bit of pocket change:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/d20110823_0057.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/d20110823_0057_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"d20110823_0057\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had also hoped to visit the slag heap tonight:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/d20110823_0069.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/d20110823_0069_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"d20110823_0069\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid my father took me out here after dark once to watch them pour molten slag down the side of the heap &#8211; it was neat, like watching mini-volcanoes.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m told they are currently dumping on the hidden far side, so that show&#8217;s not on tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Little-known fact: Sudbury sits in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sudbury_Basin\">second-largest<\/a> known impact crater on earth.\u00a0 Nothing really visible from the ground though.<\/p>\n<p>[gmap type=&#8221;satellite&#8221; visible=&#8221;true&#8221; zoom=&#8221;auto&#8221; center=&#8221;files&#8221; file=&#8221;__UPLOAD__\/2011\/08\/20110823.kml&#8221;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011\/08\/23 Another short day, but it&#8217;s amazing what a difference a good sleep makes. I felt really good today and the trip seemed much shorter. Must remember to sleep more. The only significant stop was in the town of Bruce Mines, where they had a small copper mine tour I wanted to take in.\u00a0 Unfortunately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightseeing","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}