{"id":94,"date":"2003-11-17T23:57:07","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20031117235707"},"modified":"2003-11-18T05:19:26","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T05:19:26","slug":"17112003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/17112003\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Toronto Santa Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple of years, at around this time of year, I&#8217;ve heard on the radio adverts and discussion regarding Toronto&#8217;s Santa parade.  Curiosity about the parade was only one reason that I went to see it this year, the other reason being to take some photos.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12\" href=\"http:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/albums\/public\/2003\/santa_parade\/flautists-in-band.html\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/albums\/public\/2003\/santa_parade\/images\/thumbnails\/flautists-in-band.jpg\" alt=\"Flautists in a marching band.\" title=\"Click for album entry.\"><\/a>I took over 200 in the space of a couple of hours, and as is the way of these things, half were fairly poor.  The weather was heavily overcast with very little light available, so I had to use an ISO 400 setting with the aperture set as wide as I could go (f\/3.5-4.5 depending on zoom) just to keep camera shake at bay.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenge of the weather I managed to take over a hundred &#8220;OK&#8221; photos, of which a handful were reasonably good (to my eye at least!).  I&#8217;ve taken most of these and shrunk them down for my latest public album: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/albums\/public\/2003\/santa_parade\/index.html\">The 99th Annual Santa Parade<\/a>.  My favourite of these is the one of the flautists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple of years, at around this time of year, I&#8217;ve heard on the radio adverts and discussion regarding Toronto&#8217;s Santa parade. Curiosity about the parade was only one reason that I went to see it this year, the other reason being to take some photos. I took over 200 in the space [&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\/94"}],"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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}