{"id":24035,"date":"2017-05-18T22:47:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T02:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=24035"},"modified":"2017-05-18T22:47:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T02:47:12","slug":"%e3%80%8atoronto-lakefront-update%e3%80%8b__-rose-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=24035","title":{"rendered":"\u300aToronto Lakefront update\u300b__ Rose Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/170518-Lakefront_1.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24038\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LakeFront_1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LakeFront_1-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LakeFront_1.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/170518-LakeFront_2.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24041\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LakeFront_2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LakeFront_2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LakeFront_2.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n[Please click the images to view the videos]<\/p>\n<div>Thought I could take advantage of the summer weather (25-29 C) and took a day off to Center Island today.\u00a0 I went; but the island was closed due to the high flooding.<\/div>\n<div>I walked the same waterfront but further down to the west and made 12,900 steps today.<\/div>\n<div>What used to be a walkway next to the lake was under water today.<\/div>\n<div>Petals of pink flowers (don&#8217;t ask me what kind) were being blown off the trees.\u00a0 Yachts were rocking to and fro.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>PS. The wind of today was quite high but not fierce.\u00a0 In the days when I worked downtown, whenever there was a strong gale especially in the winter, people had to hold on to the ropes tied to the buildings on each side of the road, to cross the street (Bay Street).\u00a0\u00a0 The wind tunnel effect was not to be discounted.\u00a0 People of 200 lbs. would not even dare to cross without hanging onto the rope.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 [Please click the images to view the videos] Thought I could take advantage of the summer weather (25-29 C) and took a day off to Center Island today.\u00a0 I went; but the island was closed due to the high &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=24035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[352,96],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-24035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","category-travel","tag-rose-ho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24045,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions\/24045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}