{"id":161,"date":"2018-07-23T15:38:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T22:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/?p=161"},"modified":"2018-07-23T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T22:38:48","slug":"edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/2018\/07\/23\/edmonton\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"

I arrived in Edmonton on a lazy Sunday afternoon and wasted no time getting to downtown. The core was quiet and sleepy. With very few people around, I had time to explore the streets by myself.<\/p>\n

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The city has a mix of old and new. The new buildings look like they’re straight from Singapore, and the old look like they’re out of New York. It is a mini version of two very separate worlds.<\/p>\n

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I really like the city’s efforts to create public space. Downtown is very walkable and inviting.<\/p>\n

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The art gallery is the most outstanding building in the city!<\/p>\n

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I also got the chance to see a bit of Edmonton when it first began as a Fort. It’s amazing that a place that was once desolate and cold is now a fast growing city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I arrived in Edmonton on a lazy Sunday afternoon and wasted no time getting to downtown. The core was quiet and sleepy. With very few people around, I had time to explore the streets by myself. The city has a mix of old and new. The new buildings look like they’re straight from Singapore, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}