{"id":6679,"date":"2007-03-06T19:20:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T01:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2015-12-31T09:54:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T16:54:07","slug":"dear-17th-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=6679","title":{"rendered":"Dear 17th Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear 17th Ave&#8230; oh how I&#8217;ve missed you and your stinky streets; your eclectic feel and your character. Oh how I love your little breakfast nooks, the paintings on building walls and little artsy fetish shops.<\/p>\n<p>I had forgotten how many casually light up a cigarette and stroll down your streets, how many people stumble down your length only to pass out somewhere along the way.<\/p>\n<p>It was good to see you again with all of your billboards, discarded coffee cups and familiar faces selling independent newspapers. I&#8217;ll try not to stay away as long next time.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6679 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=6682'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17thave02.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17thave02.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17thave02-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=6685'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17thave03.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17thave03.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17thave03-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=75124'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/med-17th-ave-400x400.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nDear 17th Ave&#8230; oh how I&#8217;ve missed you and your stinky streets;&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=6679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Dear 17th Avenue&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,475,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta","category-calgary","category-canada","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75123,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions\/75123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}