{"id":11312,"date":"2015-07-15T18:11:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=11312"},"modified":"2015-07-15T18:11:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:11:56","slug":"bring-out-the-bunting-says-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/bring-out-the-bunting-says-resident\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring out the bunting, says resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Re: Brock\u2019s Banter. July 9, 2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was just reading your recent edition of The Auroran in which you wrote about Aurora&#8217;s celebration of Canada Day 2015, and of the coming 150th anniversary of Confederation in two years.<br \/>\nI was tempted to write you last week on this subject, or I should say on the subject of \u201cbunting.\u201d<br \/>\nOn July 1, my dog, Monty and I walked around the block we normally take in the morning for our walk.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s called Millciff Circle.<br \/>\nWhat caught my eye was one balcony that was decorated beautifully in flowers and bunting celebrating Canada Day. I don&#8217;t know the family, but it was the only house in our whole neighbourhood that was decorated.<br \/>\nThere were a few small flags, but little to catch the eye. By contrast, you should see it at Hallowe\u2019en!<br \/>\nMy point is that we are not in the habit of putting up bunting. When I was a child living in a small town in Newfoundland our annual summer parade meant that all the houses were decked in red, white and blue. The parade was small, but it always felt like a real celebration.<br \/>\nIt might be something to think about and encourage for our next Canada Day, and for our 150th celebration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stella Switzer<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Brock\u2019s Banter. July 9, 2015) I was just reading your recent edition of The Auroran in which you wrote about Aurora&#8217;s celebration of Canada Day 2015, and of the coming 150th anniversary of Confederation in two years. I was tempted to write you last week on this subject, or I should say on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}