{"id":3926,"date":"2009-05-13T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2009-05-13T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T14:09:14","slug":"oh-canada-you-scamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/oh-canada-you-scamp","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Canada! You scamp!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey! It’s a little photoset from our Toronto trip<\/a> last weekend! (Amy has a bunch more great pix, but hasn’t processed & posted ’em yet.)<\/p>\n

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Okay. I’m sorry that I picked that one instead of one of my awesome cityscapes<\/a>, but\u00c2\u00a0 isn’t that the best name for a store? Of any kind? Ever?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I posted some more pix to that set from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, so you should go back and check ’em all out<\/a>! Repeatedly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey! It’s a little photoset from our Toronto trip last weekend! (Amy has a bunch more great pix, but hasn’t processed & posted ’em yet.) Okay. I’m sorry that I picked that one instead of one of my awesome cityscapes, but\u00c2\u00a0 isn’t that the best name for a store? Of any kind? Ever? Anyway, I … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Oh, Canada! You scamp!”<\/span><\/a><\/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],"tags":[692],"class_list":["post-3926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toronto","category-travel","tag-toronto-comic-arts-festival"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-11k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13447,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/covid-check-in-with-annie-koyama","url_meta":{"origin":3926,"position":0},"title":"COVID Check-In with Annie Koyama","author":"Gil","date":"May 27, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Annie Koyama Publisher Annie Koyama checks in from Toronto. 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