{"id":209,"date":"2020-05-23T16:15:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T23:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/?p=209"},"modified":"2020-05-23T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T23:15:25","slug":"vancouver-island-in-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Island in 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1967 ( that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 53 years ago!) Joy and I were asked to chaperone 24 Manitoba high school students to a high school exchange on Vancouver Island. 12 boys\/12 girls. It was Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 100th birthday and there were all kinds of celebrations across the country. We took the train from Winnipeg to Vancouver, then a ferry to Vancouver Island , then a bus to our final destination &#8211; Campbell River. Our students were billeted with local high school students; Joy and I stayed in a local motel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Our time on the Island was great and when we left we (Joy and I ) were given this wooden replica of a west coast salmon. Today this is where our bbq is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0796-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0796-rotated.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0796-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0796-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1967 ( that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 53 years ago!) Joy and I were asked to chaperone 24 Manitoba high school students to a high school exchange on Vancouver Island. 12 boys\/12 girls. It was Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 100th birthday and there were all kinds &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/?p=209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwenmar.com\/twtd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}