{"id":846,"date":"2013-07-09T07:55:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T11:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2013-07-09T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T12:20:18","slug":"torrential-downpour-in-toronto-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/torrential-downpour-in-toronto-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrential Downpour in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I waited the bulk of the heavy downpour out at the Bishop and Belcher pub at the ground floor where I work. I knew where my towel was. It was at home. Space travel may have proven difficult but as it turns out we weren&#8217;t slated to be demolished to make way for a space thoroughfare anyhow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wpid-IMG_20130708_1944171.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20130708_194417.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wpid-IMG_20130708_1944171.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The TTC gave us the D. Things were shut down all over the city. When I did start moving west, the train only went as far as Ossington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wpid-IMG_20130708_2012191.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20130708_201219.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wpid-IMG_20130708_2012191.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were apparently shuttle busses somewhere but after seeing the 63 south completely packed I walked it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wpid-screenshot-1373372306032-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"screenshot-1373372306032-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wpid-screenshot-1373372306032-1.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I found some soggy cardboard piled outside a home on a side street and used that for protection until I made it to a corner store to buy an umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I arrived back home, the power was back on. So all things considered, I had a pretty easy time of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I waited the bulk of the heavy downpour out at the Bishop and Belcher pub at the ground floor where I work. I knew where my towel was. It was at home. Space travel may have proven difficult but as it turns out we weren&#8217;t slated to be demolished to make way for a space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[191,127],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-musings","tag-severe-thunderstorms","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}