{"id":21623,"date":"2009-07-11T20:56:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T03:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2016-09-11T17:40:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T14:40:29","slug":"main-street-whitehorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/main-street-whitehorse\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Street, Whitehorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since tonight&#8217;s Pina Colada was a bit, um, rummy, I decided to go for a stroll after dinner and found Main Street. Most shops were closed, but I found a bookstore and a gift shop still open. The bookstore closes at midnight (!) and the gift shop at 8. I didn&#8217;t find two shops with the same opening hours.<\/p>\n<p>Walking down Main street made me very homesick for Dawson. There was no place to buy ice cream and I didn&#8217;t run into a single person I know. Oh, and the sidewalks are cement. I already miss the clatter of wooden boards underfoot.<\/p>\n<p>If I had any doubt at the wisdom of choosing Dawson over Whitehorse this summer, the doubts are assuaged. I have yet to encounter anything in Whitehorse that would make me want to try life here for a spell other than the fact that you can get high speed internet in the boondocks.<\/p>\n<p>When I return from the Chilkoot, I will try to do a few &#8216;touristy&#8217; things to get a better feel for this city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since tonight&#8217;s Pina Colada was a bit, um, rummy, I decided to go for a stroll after dinner and found Main Street. Most shops were closed, but I found a bookstore and a gift shop still open. The bookstore closes at midnight (!) and the gift shop at 8. I didn&#8217;t find two shops with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,635,5,3,1432,1040],"tags":[796],"class_list":["post-21623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-whitehorse-yukon-canada-travel","category-yukon","tag-city-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}