{"id":1901,"date":"2009-01-05T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T17:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2009\/01\/05\/fun-outdoor-activities-prohibited\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:46:17","slug":"fun-outdoor-activities-prohibited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/01\/05\/fun-outdoor-activities-prohibited\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun outdoor activities prohibited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alanahmontreal\/3154702642\/\" title=\"Mixed messages by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3081\/3154702642_afdc4b5aaa.jpg\" alt=\"Mixed messages\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sign bans tobogganing and skiing at Murry Hill (formally known as King George park).\u00a0 Westmount City Public Works clarifies that tobogganing is still allowed on the &#8220;bunny hill&#8221; pictured above, a gentle incline on the eastern side of the park, where the city has set up mattresses to keep people from sliding into the street below. The steeper western slope is criss-crossed with wooden barriers as a precaution against tobogganing accidents.<\/p>\n<p>Tobogganing and skiing have their risks and that&#8217;s why precautions like warning signs and bales of hay at the bottom of the hill are appropriate. But by enforcing overzealous safety precautions in public spaces, to the point of physically preventing a potentially risky activity, are we just pushing city kids to seek out more delinquent thrills?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sign bans tobogganing and skiing at Murry Hill (formally known as King George park).\u00a0 Westmount City Public Works clarifies that tobogganing is still allowed on the &#8220;bunny hill&#8221; pictured above, a gentle incline on the eastern side of the park, where the city has set up mattresses to keep people from sliding into the<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/01\/05\/fun-outdoor-activities-prohibited\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Fun outdoor activities prohibited&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7831,7834,7839,3537],"tags":[7,2179,370,3426,49,52,69,63,3427],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-features","category-neighbourhoods","category-parks","tag-behaviour","tag-george","tag-king","tag-murry-hill","tag-squares-and-parks","tag-photo-du-jour","tag-social-trends","tag-westmount","tag-westmount-city"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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