{"id":1269,"date":"2011-09-01T20:15:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T03:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdhive.org\/glob\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2011-09-01T20:15:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T03:15:44","slug":"to-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"to Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2011\/09\/01<\/p>\n<p>Not much to comment on today.\u00a0 I left Toronto as I arrived, under dark clouds and rain.\u00a0 Took Lakeshore Drive down to Hamilton &#8211; slower than the superhighway, but a much more pleasant drive.<\/p>\n<p>No pictures today &#8211; didn&#8217;t really stop anywhere scenic.<\/p>\n<p>From Hamilton I went south to <a href=\"\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=binbrook,+ontario&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=43.068888,-79.453125&amp;sspn=0.513656,1.07254&amp;vpsrc=0&amp;t=h&amp;z=14\">Binbrook<\/a>, a small town where my mother once lived for a short time, then west to Niagara Falls through the back roads.\u00a0 Nice area &#8211; lots of little hobby farms.\u00a0 But I see it being gobbled up by the expanding suburbs of Hamilton and Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Although I did live in Hamilton for a short while and had some notable experiences there, I didn&#8217;t stop in on my way though, and I don&#8217;t think I will on my way back north either. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have a whole lot of happy memories associated with Hamilton, and there aren&#8217;t really any particularly meaningful spots to photograph.<\/p>\n<p>[gmap file=&#8221;__UPLOAD__\/2011\/09\/20110901.kml&#8221; type=&#8221;satellite&#8221; visible=&#8221;true&#8221; zoom=&#8221;auto&#8221; center=&#8221;files&#8221;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011\/09\/01 Not much to comment on today.\u00a0 I left Toronto as I arrived, under dark clouds and rain.\u00a0 Took Lakeshore Drive down to Hamilton &#8211; slower than the superhighway, but a much more pleasant drive. No pictures today &#8211; didn&#8217;t really stop anywhere scenic. From Hamilton I went south to Binbrook, a small town where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}