{"id":8250,"date":"2011-03-14T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T12:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2011-03-14T08:56:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T12:56:54","slug":"im-not-sure-what-a-paprade-is-but-apparently-toronto-had-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/im-not-sure-what-a-paprade-is-but-apparently-toronto-had-one\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not sure what a &#8220;paprade&#8221; is, but apparently Toronto had one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/St.Patricks-Day-paprade.jpg\" title=\"St. Patrick's Day pa(p)rade\" width=\"150\" height=\"154\" align=\"top\" \/>I guess the weekend staff were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/953019--weekend-of-subway-street-closures\" target=\"_blank\">celebrating St. Patrick&#8217;s day a little early<\/a>, as not only the photo caption (left) but also the pa(p)rade directions leave you a little misdirected:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The parade begins at Bloor and St. George Sts. and heads <strong>west<\/strong> to Yonge, where it turns south and goes to Queen and then heads west again to University, ending just south of Dundas on University.<\/p>\n<p>The streets are expected to be closed from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., making driving to the parade difficult. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Highlighting mine. Going west from Bloor and St. George won&#8217;t get you to Yonge Street for a fair amount of time:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/St.Patricks-parade-route.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"St.Patrick&#039;s parade route\" width=\"366\" height=\"208\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/St.Patricks-parade-route.jpg 366w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/St.Patricks-parade-route-150x85.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>H\/T to Chris Greaves for bringing this to my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the weekend staff were celebrating St. Patrick&#8217;s day a little early, as not only the photo caption (left) but also the pa(p)rade directions leave you a little misdirected: The parade begins at Bloor and St. George Sts. and heads west to Yonge, where it turns south and goes to Queen and then heads [&hellip;]<\/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":""},"categories":[6,57,28],"tags":[213,87,207],"class_list":["post-8250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-media","tag-newspapers","tag-ontario","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-294","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250","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=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8254,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions\/8254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}