{"id":6871,"date":"2012-04-23T07:41:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T12:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2012-04-23T07:43:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T12:43:01","slug":"one-hundred-love-letters-to-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/one-hundred-love-letters-to-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"One hundred love letters to Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>‘ve toyed with changing the name of my “Life in Ottawa’ blog category to “Love letters to Ottawa.” I like to think that a lot of this blog is exactly that. But while my love letters are about the places in Ottawa, the things to see and do and visit, Kym Shumsky’s 100 strangers project<\/a> is sort of like 100 love letters about the people <\/em>of Ottawa.<\/p>\n

You may remember <\/a>last year, I wrote a post about being a part of Kym’s project. I was just re-reading my post about it for the first time in a while, and it brought me right back to that night, how much fun it was and how nervous I was and how pleased I was with the final results<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It amazes me to think I was just one per cent of Kym’s crazy project, just one of 100 interactions and photo sessions that Kym has had over the past couple of years in her epic project. In Kym’s own words, her 100 strangers project was “about style, but not just style. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also about telling the story of Ottawa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s people right off the streets of Ottawa herself. This town is more than meets the eye. Over the next several months I want to meet, talk to, and photograph 100 strangers. Pictures will tell one story. People will inspire the other.”<\/p>\n

But because she is such an inspiring person herself, she has turned this into something more. Now that the photo taking is done, there is a book, and framed prints, all of which will be raising funds for Operation Rainbow Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I think my very favourite part of this is how Kym’s project has gone from “Le Mien” (French for “mine”) to “Les n\u00c3\u00b4tres” (French for “ours”). <\/p>\n

I’ll be there, will you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I‘ve toyed with changing the name of my “Life in Ottawa’ blog category to “Love letters to Ottawa.” I like to think that a lot of this blog is exactly that. But while my love letters are about the places in Ottawa, the things to see and do and visit, Kym Shumsky’s 100 strangers project … Continue reading “One hundred love letters to Ottawa”<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871","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=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6878,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions\/6878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}