{"id":258,"date":"2009-11-12T12:21:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T01:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=258"},"modified":"2014-05-30T18:00:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T08:00:25","slug":"autumn-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2009\/11\/12\/autumn-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-259\" title=\"09nNOV11-cP1070398 VancouverLeaf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09nNOV11-cP1070398-VancouverLeaf-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"09nNOV11-cP1070398 VancouverLeaf\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09nNOV11-cP1070398-VancouverLeaf-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09nNOV11-cP1070398-VancouverLeaf.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>How quaint, I thought. Someone has etched an autumn leaf in wet cement on the sidewalk. Then I noticed another, and then a whole slew of them under an almost bare street tree.<\/p>\n<p>On many blocks along Seymour Street in Downtown Vancouver it is permanently autumn, thanks to these almost inconspicuous installations that must have been put in place when the sidewalks were paved in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-260\" title=\"09nNOV11-cP1070404 VancouverLeaves blog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09nNOV11-cP1070404-VancouverLeaves-blog-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"09nNOV11-cP1070404 VancouverLeaves blog\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09nNOV11-cP1070404-VancouverLeaves-blog-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09nNOV11-cP1070404-VancouverLeaves-blog.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Vancouver has many examples of street art, most of it official, some of it unofficial (though, as you would expect, graffiti mostly occurs at the fringes of Downtown, not in the centre).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How quaint, I thought. Someone has etched an autumn leaf in wet cement on the sidewalk. Then I noticed another, and then a whole slew of them under an almost bare street tree. On many blocks along Seymour Street in Downtown Vancouver it is permanently autumn, thanks to these almost inconspicuous installations that must have <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2009\/11\/12\/autumn-leaves\/#more-258\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,59,69],"tags":[51,3,124,70,125],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens","category-public-art","category-wet-cement","tag-footpaths","tag-graffiti","tag-public-art","tag-vancouver","tag-wet-cement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}