{"id":1650,"date":"2007-09-03T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T16:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/great-green-north\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T16:36:45","slug":"great-green-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/great-green-north","title":{"rendered":"Great Green North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back from Toronto! And I&#8217;m already missing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timhortons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Horton&#8217;s<\/a> coffee and donuts!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1393\/1312579081_1d767cf670.jpg?resize=348%2C500\" title=\"Timaaaaaa!\" alt=\"Timaaaaaa!\" height=\"500\" width=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty to write about, but you may as well traipse through our photos from the trip: <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/sets\/72157601833206912\/\" target=\"_blank\">mine<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/10865142@N00\/sets\/72157601786200459\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amy&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back from Toronto! And I&#8217;m already missing Tim Horton&#8217;s coffee and donuts! There&#8217;s plenty to write about, but you may as well traipse through our photos from the trip: mine and Amy&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toronto","category-travel","category-urban-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-qC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3926,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/oh-canada-you-scamp","url_meta":{"origin":1650,"position":0},"title":"Oh, Canada! 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