{"id":1874,"date":"2008-12-30T05:23:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T10:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/12\/30\/photo-du-jour-metro-memories\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:40:19","slug":"photo-du-jour-metro-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/12\/30\/photo-du-jour-metro-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo du Jour : Metro Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alanahmontreal\/3100920314\/\" title=\"lionel groulx metro sculpture by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3145\/3100920314_b5dc865823.jpg\" alt=\"lionel groulx metro sculpture\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Tree of Life<\/em> by Joseph Rifesser was originally located in front of the UN pavilion during expo &#8217;67 before it was moved to Lionel Groulx metro station in 1977. It is made from a walnut tree trunk.<\/p>\n<p>This sculpture is one of my earliest childhood memories of the metro, along with the brightly colored circles at Peel station where my parents and I got off each morning on the way to the McGill daycare. (I also distinctly remember my shock when, a couple of years later, I figured out that the metro actually ran <em>underground<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tree of Life by Joseph Rifesser was originally located in front of the UN pavilion during expo &#8217;67 before it was moved to Lionel Groulx metro station in 1977. It is made from a walnut tree trunk. 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