{"id":41242,"date":"2018-01-01T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41242"},"modified":"2017-12-21T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T14:37:14","slug":"qotd-edmonton-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/01\/qotd-edmonton-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Edmonton in winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Winter [in Edmonton] appeals to the (decidedly narrow) ascetic side of my temperament, but right now this place is pretty Dantean &mdash; empty, forlorn, and still, all sound half-absorbed by the snow. On the days when there&#8217;s no cloud, the sunlight hits the street with a blinding chemical whiteness that makes you wonder if God is screwing around with Photoshop filters. Most days, the sun is obscured by a gray-pink gauze that leaves you uncertain what planet you&#8217;re on. Heroin has never been a popular drug here: we all already know what it&#8217;s like to be dead.<\/p>\n<p>Colby Cosh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbycosh.com\/old\/october04.html#wceb\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;White City&#8221;, <em>ColbyCosh.com<\/em><\/a>, 2004-10-26.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter [in Edmonton] appeals to the (decidedly narrow) ascetic side of my temperament, but right now this place is pretty Dantean &mdash; empty, forlorn, and still, all sound half-absorbed by the snow. On the days when there&#8217;s no cloud, the sunlight hits the street with a blinding chemical whiteness that makes you wonder if God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,57,41],"tags":[119,861],"class_list":["post-41242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-drugs","tag-edmonton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aJc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41243,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41242\/revisions\/41243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}