{"id":11467,"date":"2016-01-22T06:48:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T11:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=11467"},"modified":"2016-01-22T06:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T11:48:44","slug":"photo-of-the-day-red-chairs-overlooking-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/22\/photo-of-the-day-red-chairs-overlooking-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the day: Red chairs overlooking downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> was at a conference this week and I brought my camera along, thinking of maybe a lunchtime walk on the Canal. Although I am really, really happy with my new job, and I really love my newly shortened commute, I do miss my lunchtime wanders downtown! I didn&#8217;t make it out for a lunchtime wander, but prowling around the Shaw Centre before the conference led me to this spectacular view out over the Rideau Canal, the Parliament Buildings and downtown Ottawa on a frosty winter morning. I think the red chairs are part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/voyage-travel\/serapprocher-connect-twitter.aspx\">Parks Canada&#8217;s #ShareTheChair <\/a>program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/24482404726\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Danielle Donders' photograph of Red chairs overlooking downtown Ottawa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1609\/24482404726_672fb91544_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Red chairs overlooking downtown Ottawa\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the geometric shapes, and wretchedly pulled a muscle in my leg trying to get a stance just right that centred the Peace Tower in one of those triangles. #photographerproblems<\/p>\n<p>Funny that I&#8217;ve walked by and photographed this area so many times, but didn&#8217;t realize that this awesome view was accessible to the public! I guess it just goes to prove what I&#8217;ve been learning all these years &#8211; beautiful photos are always lurking in the most unexpected situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a conference this week and I brought my camera along, thinking of maybe a lunchtime walk on the Canal. Although I am really, really happy with my new job, and I really love my newly shortened commute, I do miss my lunchtime wanders downtown! I didn&#8217;t make it out for a lunchtime &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/22\/photo-of-the-day-red-chairs-overlooking-downtown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo of the day: Red chairs overlooking downtown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothership-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11470,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions\/11470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}