{"id":315,"date":"2004-07-01T23:55:59","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T23:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20040701235559"},"modified":"2004-07-02T05:43:55","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T05:43:55","slug":"01072004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/01072004\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/fireworks.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/fireworks-small.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks on Canada Day\" title=\"Click for larger view.\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12\"><\/a>It is the tail end of the Canada Day, and we&#8217;ve just come down from our deck where we watched the fireworks.  While our deck doesn&#8217;t provide as good a view as exhibition place, it does feature more wine and an easier trip home.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today we went along to the Jazz and Graffiti event taking place in Nathan Phillips Square.  The music provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesunderdog.com\/\">Blues Under Dog<\/a> (warning: chronically bad website) wasn&#8217;t really Jazz, but was listen-able to.  I took some OK pictures of the band, and the graffiti artists at work.  These will be posted at some later point, for now here&#8217;s one of the fireworks (cropped from the full picture).<\/p>\n<p>It took me a few goes to find appropriate settings for taking these firework photos.  I settled on 1s and an aperture of 5.6f.  I could have probably got better results with a 70-200mm that is currently on back order, but they still came out fairly well.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Canada Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the tail end of the Canada Day, and we&#8217;ve just come down from our deck where we watched the fireworks. While our deck doesn&#8217;t provide as good a view as exhibition place, it does feature more wine and an easier trip home. Earlier today we went along to the Jazz and Graffiti event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}