{"id":10720777,"date":"2010-01-28T16:43:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amichetti.posterous.com\/an-ode-to-vancouver"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:43:36","slug":"an-ode-to-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/2010\/01\/28\/an-ode-to-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">      <object height=\"417\" width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_xMz2SnSWS4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_xMz2SnSWS4&amp;feature=player_embedded\">youtube.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Ah, Vancouver. My adopted home and favorite city. I&#8217;m originally from Calgary, but our family vacationed in Vancouver while my brother and I were growing up. I fell in love with it from an early age &#8212; so much so that upon finishing high school, I was determined to go to university there, no matter what the obstacles. And, I did&#8211; after taking an &#8220;extra year&#8221; after graduation to work full time (at Cinnabon!) and upgrade a few of my courses (including a perfect score on my Social Studies 30 exam&#8230; ha!), I was able to live my dream and attend UBC. After two degrees there, I stayed only as long as my bank account could handle it &#8212; about 2 years, if you include one year in the &#8216;ford! &#8212; before moving back to Calgary to earn some $ to pay of those nasty student loans that got me to UBC in the first place. <\/p>\n<p>But my passionate love affair with this city has never died&#8230; it remains my favorite city after I&#8217;ve traveled across much of the globe&#8230; and I hope to end up there one day (or at least somewhere close enough that I can go there on weekends!). It is one of the few places on the planet where I truly feel that I&#8217;ve come &#8220;home,&#8221; comfortable and welcomed, in my element.<\/p>\n<p>I very much wish I were there for the Olympics (yes, even with all the craziness that comes with being an Olympic city) &#8212; best wishes to all the athletes and of course, GO CANADA! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>P.S. And please do watch the video. It&#8217;s beautiful, even if it is weird for me to hear the words &#8220;Vancouver City&#8221;&#8230; because seriously, no one calls it that. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via youtube.com Ah, Vancouver. My adopted home and favorite city. I&#8217;m originally from Calgary, but our family vacationed in Vancouver while my brother and I were growing up. I fell in love with it from an early age &#8212; so much so that upon finishin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10720777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3rX5R-IYXL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10720777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10720777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10720777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10720777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}