{"id":16744,"date":"2021-06-06T09:05:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T13:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=16744"},"modified":"2021-06-06T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T14:46:26","slug":"directing-2003-08-14-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/06\/directing-2003-08-14-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Directing, 2003-08-14 Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/traffic-blackout-20030814-toronto-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in business attire stands in the middle of a downtown street. It is late afternoon on 14th August 2003, the first day of the blackout. She is facing west along a street with streetcar lines: her shadow from a beam of sunlight from between two buildings is prominent behind her. Her dark jacket is folded over her left arm, and her right arm is extended in a Stop gesture. No traffic is visible, but there are many pedestrians visible behind her\" class=\"wp-image-16745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/traffic-blackout-20030814-toronto-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/traffic-blackout-20030814-toronto-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/traffic-blackout-20030814-toronto-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/traffic-blackout-20030814-toronto-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/traffic-blackout-20030814-toronto.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Directing, 2003-08-14 Toronto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a great scan, but it&#8217;s a photo I thought I&#8217;d lost forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taken in Toronto on the afternoon of the 2003 blackout, I was struck by the way she directed traffic in the middle of the intersection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(as previously shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/mltshp.com\/p\/1LMQU\">mltshp<\/a> and subsequently to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Best_of_MLTSHP\/status\/1401489517043863553\">twitter<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a great scan, but it&#8217;s a photo I thought I&#8217;d lost forever. Taken in Toronto on the afternoon of the 2003 blackout, I was struck by the way she directed traffic in the middle of the intersection. (as previously shared on mltshp and subsequently to twitter.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[3276,3275,2899,43],"class_list":["post-16744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","category-photo","tag-3276","tag-blackout","tag-photo","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4m4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16747,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16744\/revisions\/16747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}