{"id":42,"date":"2010-12-06T21:33:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T05:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2010-12-06T22:28:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T06:28:46","slug":"ice-skating-at-robson-square-ice-rink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Ice Skating at Robson Square Ice Rink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not winter in Canada without ice skating\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..or at least <em>watching<\/em> ice skating.\u00c2\u00a0 Another tradition in Vancouver just opened today \u00e2\u20ac\u201c free ice skating<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/R4WYJ20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-46\" title=\"$R4WYJ20\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/R4WYJ20-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters inside the Robson Square Ice Rink<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0at Robson Square Ice Rink.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, there is a lot of construction going on around the rink (located underneath the Vancouver Art Gallery) but it is worth the hassle of getting there.\u00c2\u00a0 So, Pete and I decided to have a date night by strolling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robsonstreet.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robson Street<\/a>, grabbing a hot chocolate from <a href=\"http:\/\/caffeartigiano.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Artigiano<\/a> on Hornby and watching ice skating at the Robson Square Rink.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, yes it would have been better to have a date night where we actually went ice skating \u00e2\u20ac\u201c after all, you can rent skates at the rink for only $3 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but both Pete and I failed skating in school so we felt it was in the interest of public safety that we keep our crash and tumble act to ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, it was highly amusing to watch the skaters \u00e2\u20ac\u201c some experienced and some not \u00e2\u20ac\u201c out on the ice.\u00c2\u00a0 The rink is open seven days a week until the end of February 2011 between the hours of 9 am to 9pm.\u00c2\u00a0 On Friday and Saturdays, it is open until 11pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not winter in Canada without ice skating\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..or at least watching ice skating.\u00c2\u00a0 Another tradition in Vancouver just opened today \u00e2\u20ac\u201c free ice skating \u00c2\u00a0at Robson Square Ice Rink.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, there is a lot of construction going on around the rink (located underneath the Vancouver Art Gallery) but it is worth the hassle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,12,24,10,25,13],"tags":[31,8,36,29,9,30,5,4],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-dates","category-inexpensive-dates","category-limited-run","category-night-dates","category-outdoor-dates","category-vancouver-area","tag-cheap-date-ideas-vancouver","tag-fun-activities-in-vancouver","tag-outdoor-date-ideas","tag-vancouver-date-ideas","tag-vancouver-date-night","tag-vancouver-things-to-do","tag-where-to-go-on-a-date","tag-www-vancouverdatenight-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vancouverdatenight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}