{"id":2857,"date":"2013-02-26T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2013-03-28T02:40:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T02:40:12","slug":"being-dangerously-dapper-with-nick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/being-dangerously-dapper-with-nick\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Dangerously Dapper With Nick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-5820.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2886\" alt=\"Miguelitos Little Green Car-5820\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-5820.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-5820.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-5820-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Being Dangerously Dapper With Nick<br \/>\n<\/strong>Featuring Nick Lees<br \/>\nWriter, Adventurer, Philanthropist<br \/>\nFebruary 26, 2013<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.block1912.com\/\">Block 1912 Cafe<\/a><br \/>\nEdmonton, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Nick was invited to leave school at the age of 16. He became a reporter and during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1960s\">Swinging Sixties<\/a> in London, England, he interviewed the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Beatles\">The Beatles<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_F._Kennedy\">Bobby Kenney Sr.<\/a> and covered Scotland Yard for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/\">London Evening Standar<\/a>d. He jumped a cargo boat and came to Canada in 1967 and was involved in a car accident that saw him ending up broke in Edmonton with three broken ribs. He worked for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\">Edmonton Journal<\/a> for two years before living on the beaches in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baja_California\">Baja, California<\/a>, later working as a carpenter in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vail,_Colorado\">Vail, Colorado<\/a> and then returning to the United Kingdom to work on a North Sea oil rig. He returned to Edmonton in 1976 and went on to write a column for the Edmonton Journal as Nick Danger. He drove in demolition derbies; was trapped by a blizzard on top of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Logan\">Mt. Logan<\/a>, Canada&#8217;s highest mountain; parachuted with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canadian_Airborne_Regiment\">Canadian Airborne<\/a>; flew supersonically in fighter jets and toured under the Atlantic in a Canadian Forces submarine. He loves music, old movies, books, wine and art he can understand.<\/p>\n[info]Nick represented Canada in a made-for-TV Extreme Arctic Challenge that saw him ice climb, build an igloo and race a Porsche on a frozen lake.[\/info]\n[info]He has run 55 marathons, twice qualifying for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Marathon\">Boston Marathon<\/a>, which he has run.[\/info]\n[info]He has raised several million dollars for charities by running, cycling and organizing dinners where the idea was to give sanity a quick uppercut to the jaw.[\/info]\n[info]He very sportingly wore a tux to a coffee shop for this photo.\u00a0 Thanks Nick![\/info]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being Dangerously Dapper With Nick Featuring Nick Lees Writer, Adventurer, Philanthropist February 26, 2013 Block 1912 Cafe Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Nick was invited to leave school at the age of 16. He became a reporter and during the Swinging Sixties in London, England, he interviewed the likes of The Beatles and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,234,6,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}