{"id":21957,"date":"2010-11-10T13:01:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=10306"},"modified":"2016-09-16T19:33:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:33:27","slug":"montreal-urban-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/montreal-urban-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Urban Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10311\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Pont_Jacques_Cartier_Montreal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10311\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10311\" title=\"Pont_Jacques_Cartier_Montreal\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Pont_Jacques_Cartier_Montreal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Cartier Bridge seen from Montreal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Until this afternoon, I believed like many Quebecers, that the Jacques-Cartier Bridge was designed by Gustav Eiffel, or that the bridge was a gift from France. Not without reason:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMGP0985.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10308\" title=\"IMGP0985\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMGP0985.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMGP0983.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10307\" title=\"IMGP0983\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMGP0983.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The finials are not &#8216;Eiffel towers&#8217;, but sure do resemble them! They measure 13&#8242; and weigh 6 tons!<\/p>\n<p>Bonus picture of the day:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10309\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMGP0988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10309\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10309\" title=\"IMGP0988\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMGP0988.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olympic tower seen from the Jacques Cartier bridge through the suicide prevention barrier<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until this afternoon, I believed like many Quebecers, that the Jacques-Cartier Bridge was designed by Gustav Eiffel, or that the bridge was a gift from France. Not without reason: The finials are not &#8216;Eiffel towers&#8217;, but sure do resemble them! They measure 13&#8242; and weigh 6 tons! Bonus picture of the day:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,719,635,718,5,3],"tags":[796],"class_list":["post-21957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-montreal","category-north-america","category-quebec","category-rving","category-travel","tag-city-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}