{"id":156,"date":"2006-06-17T21:10:22","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T02:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=156"},"modified":"2025-01-15T00:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:59:47","slug":"excitement-in-kanata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Excitement in Kanata (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So the family tried to go to the AMC in Kanata to watch X-Men 3. We did actually get to <em>start<\/em> to watch it, but about half an hour in the lights went up, and a theatre employee told us we had to evacuate the building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were asked to leave by one of the rear exits. When we got around to the side of the building we saw this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/AMCpolice.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/AMCpolice.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/AMCpolice-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The entire front of the building was cordoned off with crime tape and police were directing us away from the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Apologies for the image quality &#8212; I just snapped a picture as I was walking by, in the hopes that I would not attract the attention of the constabulary.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I heard from someone in front of me (i.e. this is an unsubstantiated rumour) was that a suspicious package &#8212; a brief case(?) &#8212; had been found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> According to The Citizen, it was a black briefcase with a black wire sticking out of it. The bomb squad &#8220;detonated&#8221; it around 23h00, but the article doesn&#8217;t indicate whether it was actually a bomb or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the family tried to go to the AMC in Kanata to watch X-Men 3. We did actually get to start to watch it, but about half an hour in the lights went up, and a theatre employee told us we had to evacuate the building. We were asked to leave by one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3493,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/3493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}