{"id":1493,"date":"2007-02-25T19:34:47","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T00:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/25\/steamy-compensation\/"},"modified":"2007-02-25T19:52:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T00:52:29","slug":"steamy-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/25\/steamy-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Steamy compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent part of last week planning a two-week trip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/maps?q=San+Francisco,+CA&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;z=13&#038;ll=37.775057,-122.418251&#038;spn=0.103256,0.179901&#038;t=h&#038;om=1&#038;iwloc=addr\">here<\/a> but I had to cancel it for a bunch of reasons. (I hate being so reasonable.)<\/p>\n<p>So I consoled myself by spending a day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balnea.ca\/\">here<\/a>. (A bit crowded today but very, very nice.) Turkish steam bath. Walk in the cold outside while wearing a plush bathrobe over a bathing suit. Long soak in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trekearth.com\/gallery\/North_America\/Canada\/photo552592.htm\">outdoor hot tub<\/a>. Scandinavian sauna. Dip in the cold pool. Foot massage. Salmon for lunch. More saunas. Fall asleep on a lounge chair while reading a good but dense <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Human_Stain\">book<\/a>. More time in the sauna. One last look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trekearth.com\/gallery\/North_America\/Canada\/photo342806.htm\">gorgeous landscape<\/a> around.<\/p>\n<p>Way to spend a Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent part of last week planning a two-week trip here but I had to cancel it for a bunch of reasons. (I hate being so reasonable.) So I consoled myself by spending a day here. (A bit crowded today but very, very nice.) Turkish steam bath. Walk in the cold outside while wearing a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/25\/steamy-compensation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steamy compensation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}