{"id":263,"date":"2009-11-12T12:33:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T02:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=263"},"modified":"2009-11-13T15:52:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T05:52:46","slug":"the-date-is-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2009\/11\/12\/the-date-is-set\/","title":{"rendered":"The date is set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-264\" title=\"09nNOV11-cP1070298 VancouverDateFace blog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09nNOV11-cP1070298-VancouverDateFace-blog-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"09nNOV11-cP1070298 VancouverDateFace blog\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09nNOV11-cP1070298-VancouverDateFace-blog-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09nNOV11-cP1070298-VancouverDateFace-blog.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>How do I know when the sidewalks of Vancouver were last paved? Easy. The year is impressed into the concrete. Near one of these imprints I found an impromptu wet cement drawing. This piece of pavement graffiti was the first one I photographed after arriving in Vancouver for a conference. It reflected how I felt after the 14-hour flight from Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>There is much more that can be read into this small example of the official juxtaposed against the unofficial on the corner of Seymour and West Hastings Streets. Vancouver, readying itself for the 2010 Winter Olympics, is a city I would describe as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcorderly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, and yet you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to spend too much time in the streets to discover that elements of disorderliness are not entirely suppressed. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/vancouverolympicsprotest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Olympics Protest <\/a>Flickr group expose what they see as Vancouver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s problems.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-267\" title=\"09nNOV11-cP1070294 VancouverFace blog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09nNOV11-cP1070294-VancouverFace-blog2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"09nNOV11-cP1070294 VancouverFace blog\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09nNOV11-cP1070294-VancouverFace-blog2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09nNOV11-cP1070294-VancouverFace-blog2.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I know when the sidewalks of Vancouver were last paved? Easy. The year is impressed into the concrete. Near one of these imprints I found an impromptu wet cement drawing. This piece of pavement graffiti was the first one I photographed after arriving in Vancouver for a conference. It reflected how I felt <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2009\/11\/12\/the-date-is-set\/#more-263\" 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":[69],"tags":[51,3,70,125],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wet-cement","tag-footpaths","tag-graffiti","tag-vancouver","tag-wet-cement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}